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WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT: IN THE TRENCHES OF WORLD WAR I
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World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long, notable improvements in weaponry and equipment and the first example of tanks being used in battle. This book examines the day-to-day lives of the British Tommy, the German Stormtrooper, the French Poilu and the American Doughboy as they fought and died in the trenches, with details of their recruitment and training and vivid descriptions...
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War on the Western Front: In the Trenches of WWI - General Military by Gary Sheffield (2008)
World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long, innovations in weaponry and equipment and the introduction of tanks in battle. Without the ordinary soldier, however, there could have been no war: the Great War was very much a conflict of infantrymen - the largely forgotten masses of Tommies, Fritzes, Poilus and Doughboys. With a foreword by renowned World War I historian Gary Sheffield...
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Secondary genre: Arts, European History, Military History, WWI. Illustrations: Illustrations. Genre: Academic, History.
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This book is an unprecedented view of the Western Front in World War I from the perspective of German amateur photographers.While fighting in the trenches tens of thousands of German soldiers had their cameras with them in their field packs and took shots of the surrounding reality of war.Largely forgotten since the 1920s German amateur photographs show the trench war at the Westen Front as the infantry man or the company officer captured it spontaneously with his camera In this way an intimate...
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