Shots from the front
Subtitle: the British soldier 1914-18
By: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperPress
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780007275489
Subjects: Pictorial works; History; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Campaigns; Military campaigns; Armee; Weltkrieg; Great Britain. Army; Great Britain
Description: "Following the great success of his book Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front (2003), the leading military historian Richard Holmes has selected over 200 rare and unusual photographs to illustrate the wide range of the British Army's experience in the First World War - on all fronts, from Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Gallipoli to the Flanders trenches." "The book's topics include the preparations for war and the mobilisation of 1914; the 'roses of no-man's land' - the contribution made by nurses; 'blighty ones and other ones' - the wounded and their treatment; 'brother lead and sister steel' - soldiers and their weapons; scenes from the battlefield and the campaigns where Tommies fought; the armistice and its aftermath."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: A Concourse of Men -- -- 2.; title: Flesh and Blood -- -- 3.; title: Steel and Fire -- -- 4.; title: Life and Death -- -- 5.; title: In Parenthesis?