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The First World War Galleries

Autor Paul Cornish
en 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.
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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

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.