A Camera on the Somme
Author: Corinne Perkin
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780949215550
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Ghosts on the Somme
Author: Alastair H. Fraser
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2009-04-19
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1844682706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army—1 July 1916—and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so often in books and documentaries that it has profoundly influenced our view of the battle and of the Great War itself. Yet this book is the first in-depth study of this historic film, and it is the first to relate it to the surviving battleground of the Somme.The authors explore the film and its history in fascinating detail. They investigate how much of it was faked and consider how much credit for it should go to Geoffrey Malins and how much to John MacDowell. And they use modern photographs of the locations to give us a telling insight into the landscape of the battle and into the way in which this pioneering film was created.Their analysis of scenes in the film tells us so much about the way the British army operated in June and July 1916—how the troops were dressed and equipped, how they were armed and how their weapons were used. In some cases it is even possible to discover what they were saying. This painstaking exercise in historical reconstruction will be compelling reading for everyone who is interested in the Great War and the Battle of the Somme.
The Missing of the Somme
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-08-09
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0307742970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
The Somme, Including Also The Coward
Author: Arthur Donald Gristwood
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781570036484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these stories, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life in WWI for the ordinary soldier, and the unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of the master storyteller H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. 'The Somme' revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt, who is wounded and moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Both in and out of the line he behaves selfishly and unheroically, but in a manner with which it is hard for the reader not to identify. Based on A D Gristwood's own wartime experiences, critics have said that few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life. 'The Coward' concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war, during the March 1918 retreat - an offense punishable by death.
Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003
Author: Jean Bourgeois
Publisher: Academia Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9789038207827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication contains the selected proceedings of a conference devoted to the history of aerial photography (Ghent, 2003).
Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Alan D. Bennett
Publisher: ibooks
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 1106
ISBN-13: 1883283566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot's point of view. This is volume 1 and volume 2 combined for the ebook edition. Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown’s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown’s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April, 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: THE RED BARON’S LAST FLIGHT. After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown’s family, and Wop May’s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown’s life emerged. This new book, Captain Roy Brown, tells the complete definitive story.
The Purpose of Futility
Author: Clare Rhoden
Publisher: Apollo Books
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781742586625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Purpose of Futility, Clare Rhoden surveys Australian Great War narratives, demonstrating their particularly Australian features which help to explain the unique and disputed position of the Great War in Australian history.--Provided by publisher
Cameras at War
Author: John Wade
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1526760134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBooks about war and the pictures that came out of conflict usually concentrate on the picture content. But behind every picture there is a camera – and that’s what this book is about. Profusely illustrated throughout with pictures of the cameras, rather than the pictures they took, it looks at 100 years of conflict from the Crimean War to the Korean War. It begins in the days when a photographer needed to be more of a scientist than an artist, such were the difficulties of shooting and processing any photograph. It ends with the cameras whose compact dimensions, versatility and ease of use meant that photographers could largely forget the science and concentrate on the art. Some cameras simply recorded events. Others defined and changed the way those events proceeded. These were the cameras that went to war, and this is their story.
Camera Aloft
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0521820553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeographies of Knowledge and Power
Author: Peter Meusburger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9401799601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world politics, media control in twentieth century, cartography in modern war, the power of words, the changing face of Islamic authority, and the role of Millennialism in the United States. This book offers insights from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, scientific theology, Assyriology, and communication science.
