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The Great War Seen from the Air: In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918
Birger Stichelbaut
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Description for The Great War Seen from the Air: In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918
Hardback. A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders Fields Series: Mercatorfonds. Num Pages: 396 pages, 532 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; AJRK; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 314 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2548.
A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders Fields
Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, ... Read more
A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders Fields
Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
396
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Mercatorfonds
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300196580
SKU
V9780300196580
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Ref
99-1
About Birger Stichelbaut
Birger Stichelbaut is a postdoctoral researcher based in the department of archaeology, Ghent University, Belgium. Piet Chielens is coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.
Reviews for The Great War Seen from the Air: In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918
“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)
Anthony Brandt
Completely Out of My Mind
"Stichelbaut and Chielens offer a meticulous work based on careful examination of WWI aerial photographs ... Read more
Anthony Brandt
Completely Out of My Mind
"Stichelbaut and Chielens offer a meticulous work based on careful examination of WWI aerial photographs ... Read more