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The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage
Stephen Thomas Miles
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Description for The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage
Hardback. .
The Western Front has become, once again, and after 100 years, an important and increasingly popular tourist destination. The Centenary is already encouraging large numbers of visitors to engage with this highly poignant landscape of war and to commemorate the sacrifice and loss of a previous generation. Interest is also being sharpened in the 'places of war' as battle-sites, trench-systems, bunkers and mine craters gain a clearer identity as war heritage. For the first time this book brings together the three strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front. ... Read more
The Western Front has become, once again, and after 100 years, an important and increasingly popular tourist destination. The Centenary is already encouraging large numbers of visitors to engage with this highly poignant landscape of war and to commemorate the sacrifice and loss of a previous generation. Interest is also being sharpened in the 'places of war' as battle-sites, trench-systems, bunkers and mine craters gain a clearer identity as war heritage. For the first time this book brings together the three strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473833760
SKU
V9781473833760
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Stephen Thomas Miles
Stephen Miles is an Affiliate Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow's Crichton Campus in Dumfries. He studied at the universities of Durham and Sheffield before undertaking a PhD at the University of Glasgow which he completed in 2012. He has previously written on 'dark' tourism and sense of place at conflict sites.
Reviews for The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage
Useful for pre-tour research, the author has put a significant amount of work in to collating the information within.
Guild of Battlefield Guides
Guild of Battlefield Guides