The Great War Illustrated - 1917: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

by William Langford, Jack Holroyd

Overview

Fourth in a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in present-day publications and TV documentary programmes many did not. The Great War Illustrated series, beginning with the year 1914, will include in its pages many rarely seen images with individual numbers allocated, and subsequently they will be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive for use by editors and authors.The Great War Illustrated 1917 covers the battles at Arras, Passchendaele and Cambrai, the use of aviation and the role of the tanks. Some images will be familiar, and many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the months that changed the world for ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473881631
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Series:	The Great War Illustrated
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	899,031
File size:	117 MB
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About the Author

The author has been employed in printing and publishing for fifty years. His works include five fictional titles, two books on aviation topics, five further titles on the First World War and one covering the actions of the SS Totenkopf Division in the invasion of France in May 1940.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nigel Cave 6

Introduction 8

Chapter 1 The German Retreat - Der Betrieb 'Alberich' 9

Chapter 2 Arras - Vimy Ridge 41

Chapter 3 Bloody April - The Red Baron - Air War, Fighters 177

Chapter 4 The Nivelle Failure - French Army Revolt 253

Chapter 5 Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 317

Chapter 6 America Joins the Fray - Russia Leaves 359

Chapter 7 Capture of The Wytschaete-Messines Ridge 417

Chapter 8 Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele 441

Chapter 9 The Battle of Cambrai 461

Chapter 10 Highlight of 1917 - the Capture of Jerusalem 469

Index 475

Editorial Reviews

The 1917 volume of this ground breaking series contains 1,000 images from the Great War, with a middle section in full colour. Many of the photographs will have been seen before by varius people in a number of books, but their collection in this magnificent volume is its own tribute to the men who were sacrificed by the generals in a war that was meant to end in December 1914. Moving and thought provoking at the same time, and certainly not for the faint-hearted! A fitting tribute in every sense.

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