The First World War Galleries
Autor Paul Cornishen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 aug 2014
World
War
I
continues
to
be
remembered
as
one
of
the
most
horrific
confrontations
in
human
history,
as
the
combination
of
trench
warfare
and
modern
munitions
claimed
the
lives
of
16
million
soldiers
and
civilians
with
many
more
wounded
or
missing.
But
the
effects
of
war
reached
far
beyond
the
battlefields.
One
hundred
years
later,
changes
it
wrought
to
the
world’s
cultural
and
political
landscape
continue
to
shape
lives.
Paul Cornish’sThe First World War Galleriesrevisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Founded in 1917, the museum has as one of its missions the collection of items related to the war, and it opened to the public in 1920 with a wide range of materials, including film footage, oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles. As curator of the museum’s forthcoming First World War Gallery, a major new project planned for the centenary, Cornish emulates the exhibition’s accessible approach to offer a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history. To show why this tragedy occurred, Cornish traces the war’s roots to 1900, carrying his narrative through to the close of the war in1918 and its consequences into the 1920s, overturning a great many myths along the way.
With stunning photography and a wealth of new research,The First World War Galleriesoffers a testament and tribute to the Great War that military and history buffs will not want to miss.
Paul Cornish’sThe First World War Galleriesrevisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Founded in 1917, the museum has as one of its missions the collection of items related to the war, and it opened to the public in 1920 with a wide range of materials, including film footage, oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles. As curator of the museum’s forthcoming First World War Gallery, a major new project planned for the centenary, Cornish emulates the exhibition’s accessible approach to offer a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history. To show why this tragedy occurred, Cornish traces the war’s roots to 1900, carrying his narrative through to the close of the war in1918 and its consequences into the 1920s, overturning a great many myths along the way.
With stunning photography and a wealth of new research,The First World War Galleriesoffers a testament and tribute to the Great War that military and history buffs will not want to miss.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781904897835
ISBN-10: 1904897835
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 250 color plates
Dimensiuni: 197 x 241 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.02 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Imperial War Museums
Colecția Imperial War Museums
ISBN-10: 1904897835
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 250 color plates
Dimensiuni: 197 x 241 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.02 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Imperial War Museums
Colecția Imperial War Museums
Notă biografică
Paul
Cornishis
a
historian
and
curator
at
the
Imperial
War
Museum.
He
is
the
author
or
editor
of
several
books,
including,
most
recently,Bodies
in
ConflictandContested
Objects:
Material
Memories
of
the
Great
War.