The Great War Seen from the Air In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918 Birger Stichelbaut, Piet Chielens
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 15 Jan 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300196580
- Imprint:
- Mercatorfonds
- Dimensions:
- 352 pages: 254 x 298mm
- Illustrations:
- 532 b-w illus.
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This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents, and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before.
“Splendid . . . chilling . . . Publishers are flooding the market with books describing various aspects of [the Great War]. But none of them can surpass this book's visual explanation.”—Anthony Brandt (blog review)
"Stichelbaut and Chielens offer a meticulous work based on careful examination of WWI aerial photographs taken in Flanders, in northern Belgium. This volume investigates how the war, in all of its tragic dimensions, destroyed, modified, and altered features of the terrestrial topography and landscape."—P.D. Thomas, CHOICE
“The photographs collected in [this] book give modern readers a new perspective on the war. . . . Even from a thousand feet in the air, it’s a crushing thing to see.”—Nick Stockton, Wired
“[An] unusual, pathbreaking book . . . unique . . . accessible . . . forcefully clarifies how massive an endeavor the Great War really was . . . [and] presents awful and inspiring visual confirmation of the written record of the war in the trenches.”—Cathal J. Nolan, Michigan War Studies Review
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