The Great War

Resource Information

The work The Great War represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Great War

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mark Holborn ; historical texts and chronologies by Hilary Roberts, Imperial War Museums

Contributor

• Imperial War Museum
• Holborn, Mark
• Roberts, Hilary

Subject

• Nonfiction
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Chronology
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works

Genre

• truePictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

The opening photograph is of the gun that fired the first shot of the war. The final photograph is of an audio recording showing the arrival of silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The advent of popular photography meant that the Great War was the first conflict to be documented in photographs, from the deserts of the Middle East to the mud of Western Front. Now the digital age has made it possible to construct a single photographic narrative that follows the war on multiple fronts, covering the conflict on land, sea and air. Imperial War Museums in London houses one of the greatest photographic archives of conflict in the world, collecting hundreds of thousands of pictures of the First World War from all the combat nations. This unique book is divided into five sections, each prefaced with a detailed chronology of events and a historical summary, together with detailed captions for every picture

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

940.400222

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult