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Faces of World War One: The Tragedy of the Great War in Words and Pictures (Hardcover)

by Max Arthur (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Cassell Illustrated; First Edition, First Impression edition (15 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844035611
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844035618
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 23.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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The Herald

A poignant and thoroughly engrossing collection of First World War photography, taken from private collections and archives, including those at the Imperial War Museum, and assembled by leading oral historian Max Arthur. The images, some of which have never been published, are accompanied by eye-witness accounts from veterans, and together illustrate the enlistment process, early training, and daily life on the support and front lines.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable faces, 30 Oct 2007
By Anne Thomas (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
There have been other books of photos of World War 1, and one might expect to see the same old images - but this is a collection of many unfamiliar, previously unseen photos - of subjects ranging from the Western Front, Gallipoli, the home front, and behind the lines - and both before, during and after the war.
The large format lends itself to the often panoramic images - and also allows you to see in detail extraordinary and haunting portraits - the 'faces' after which the book is named. It's a collection to please the expert and the interested browser alike - a WWI buff will appreciate the precisely captioned battle scenes - but any reader will feel the impact of the personal quotations which accompany many images - they add an extraordinary dimension to one's understanding of life and conditions in the trenches. It's an immensely moving photo-record, but my heart was particularly wrenched by the three Australian brothers who all died in one two-day attack, the home images of the average, working-class man who went to fight for king and country... not the Eton toffs, but the desperately poor. The images depict a world of contrasts, both in Britain and in Germany - but when it came down to it, all the men at the front were in the same boat, and returned after the conflict to their bleak lives with their terrible disfigurements, mental scars and the memory of lost comrades.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Collection to make you think, 20 Aug 2008
By D. Stark "Donna Stark" (Northumberland) - See all my reviews
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I agree with the other reviews so will try not to repeat too much in my own review.

Children (and some adults) are all too dismissive of the previous generations and, although I would not recommend showing this to young children, it could help teenagers studying history to get a real sense of the conditions the men fighting in the First World War were subject to. The author does not shy away from showing the dead in photographs and I think it gives the reader something to think about and possibly discuss.

As a book, it is well thought out and presented beautifully. It's a book I would happily leave on my coffee table for friends to flick through. A couple of friends can not understand why I would want to look at pictures from the War (as they find the subject of warfare disturbing) but I've never believed in wrapping people in cotton wool - I think people should know what those men went through and be proud of them. Although it is a collection of frank photographs of war, I think the subject has been handled sensitively too - there are no gratuitous shots what so ever in this book.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants to get a real sense of the lives of the men involved.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Addition to the WW1 Library, 6 Mar 2008
By Capt John Rowlands "fotonix" (Anglesey, Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is first and foremost a picture book. As you might expect, there are many uncomfortable images, but it is a far more balanced book than that. There are many depictions of strong comradeship and even happiness amongst the desperate conditions and casualties of the trenches. Without much in the way of text, it doesn't fully, even with pictures, convey the 'grit' of the WW1 experience that I think many of today's, removed generation would like to understand. But as a picture book, it has no rival, and is beautifully printed.

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