The Great War July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. It is an illustrated panorama with an essay by Adam Hochschild. ” Sacco`s work [is] the best argument around for comics as a journalistic medium”. (GQ). Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20, 000 British soldiers were killed & another 40, 000 were wounded that first day, & there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted a few months later. In The Great War, acclaimed cartoonist Joe Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary, 24-foot-long wordless panorama: from the riding exercises of General Douglas Haig to the massive artillery positions & marshalling areas behind the trench lines, to the legions of British soldiers going `over the top` & being cut down in No-Man`s-L&, to the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers retreating & the dead being buried en masse. Printed on fine accordion-fold paper & packaged in a deluxe hardcover slipcase with a 16-page accompanying booklet, The Great War is a landmark work in Sacco`s illustrious career, & makes visceral one of the bloodiest days in history. ...

Excellent World War I commemorative map from the IGN presenting an overview of the Western Front supported by three more detailed enlargements of the main battlefields including the Somme area, & highlighting 15 special Remembrance Trails, remaining trenches, numerous memorial sites, museums, cemeteries, etc. Prepared by the IGN in collaboration with the Mission du Centenaire programme set up by the French Government, the map has a far more detailed base for presenting all the WWI-related information than found on other maps of the Western Front. A road map of northern France at 1:410, 000 shows the whole of the front line in October 1914 from the Swiss border to the coast of Flanders, also indicating the limit of the German advance & the eventual Armistice line of 11.11.1918. Three panels provide more detailed enlargements at 1:290, 000: the Béthune
- Péronne area including the Somme battlefields, Arras & the Vimy Ridge; the Reims
- Compiègne area with Chemin des Dammes; plus Verdun. Both the main map & the enlargements indicate numerous memorial locations, including several commemorative tours by car, train, bicycle or walking, e.g. The Front route between Ypres & the Somme, a 92-km Albert
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- Péronne route through the main Somme battlefields, The British Circuit of Remembrance & The Victoria Cross routes near Soissons, etc. 15 tours have brief descriptions with website addresses & some with QR codes for downloading further information. Also provided is a year-by-year list of the principal Western Front battles with each entry cross-referenced to its location on the main map. Map legend & all the text are in English, French & German.PLEASE NOTE: although the map covers the whole of the Western Front, including Flanders with Ypres & Passendale/ Passchendaele, the overprint within Belgium is more limited – the map is designed to provide information mainly within France. This title is also available as a wall map but with its map legend & and all the additional text only in French.



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IGN’s excellent World War I commemorative map presented in an encapsulated, waterproof wall map format, size 121 x 100cm (46.5” x 39.5” approx). The map provides an overview of the Western Front supported by three more detailed enlargements of the main battlefields including the Somme area, & highlights 15 special Remembrance Trails, remaining trenches, numerous memorial sites, museums, cemeteries, etc. Prepared by the IGN in collaboration with the Mission du Centenaire programme set up by the French Government, the map has a far more detailed base for presenting all the WWI-related information than found on other maps of the Western Front. A road map of northern France at 1:410, 000 shows the whole of the front line in October 1914 from the Swiss border to the coast of Flanders, also indicating the limit of the German advance & the eventual Armistice line of 11.11.1918. Three panels provide more detailed enlargements at 1:290, 000: the Béthune
- Péronne area including the Somme battlefields, Arras & Vimy Ridge; the Reims
- Compiègne area with Chemin des Dammes; plus Verdun. Both the main map & the enlargements indicate numerous memorial locations, including several commemorative tours by car, train, bicycle or walking, e.g. The Front route between Ypres & the Somme, a 92-km Albert
- Thiepval
- Péronne route through the main Somme battlefields, The British Circuit of Remembrance & The Victoria Cross routes near Soissons, etc. 15 tours have brief descriptions with website addresses & some with QR codes for downloading further information. Also provided is a year-by-year list of the principal Western Front battles with each entry cross-referenced to its location on the main map. PLEASE NOTE: in this wall map format, map legend & all the additional text are in French only; in the folded version of this title all the information

Includes:: English. Although the map covers the whole of the Western Front, including Flanders with Ypres & Passendale/ Passchendaele, the overprint within Belgium is more limited – the map is designed to provide information mainly within France.LAMINATED & ENCAPSULATED WALL MAPS:- LAMINATED wall maps have a thin layer of plastic usually applied to the printed side only. They can be written on with suitable marker pens without any damage to the map but, unless laminated on both sides, they are not damp-proof.- ENCAPSULATED wall maps are sealed between two sheets of plastic. They are more rigid & heavier than laminated maps of the same size. They are damp-proof & do not crinkle in humid conditions. Encapsulation gives the map a shiny surface, similar to being displayed behind glass.- PLEASE NOTE: many publishers & retailers often use these two terms interchangeably. Our map titles & descriptions follow the definitions provided above.





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The Great War 1914-1918: from Liege to the Yser & the Somme, a commemorative map at 1:250, 000 from the Belgian national survey organization showing current road network with an overprint highlighting lines of attack, museums & memorials, etc. The map is double-sided & covers most of Belgium plus parts of northern France (but please see below), Extensive bold overprint indicates lines attack by the Germans & of retreat by the Belgian forces, also front lines at different dates. Large icons mark locations of military cemeteries colour-coded to indicate the nationality & annotated with the number of graves, battle sites, museums, etc. The map also shows locations where atrocities were committed against Belgian civilians, with separate panels providing additional more detailed information for each province. The map has latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. Further panels provide a more detailed enlargement of the Ypres Salient area & information on the fighting in 1914 around Liege, Brussels & Namur. The map is surrounded by panels of contemporary & present day photos & drawings. Accompanying booklet provides more information, particularly about the fighting in 1914. The main map legend & the text in the booklet include English; annotations of some of the additional map panels & photos/drawings are in French and/or Flemish only.PLEASE NOTE: in France the map does cover the main Somme battlefields, but the area south of Albert & west of Laon is not included. Within Belgium, for visiting the Ypres Salient battlefields using more detailed mapping of this area is recommended. ...

The Great War 1914-1918: from Liege to the Yser & the Somme, a commemorative map at 1:250, 000 from the Belgian national survey organization showing current road network with an overprint highlighting lines of attack, museums & memorials, etc. The map is double-sided & covers most of Belgium plus parts of northern France (but please see below), Extensive bold overprint indicates lines attack by the Germans & of retreat by the Belgian forces, also front lines at different dates. Large icons mark locations of military cemeteries colour-coded to indicate the nationality & annotated with the number of graves, battle sites, museums, etc. The map also shows locations where atrocities were committed against Belgian civilians, with separate panels providing additional more detailed information for each province. The map has latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5 ...

Exceptionally detailed map at 1:35, 000 of the Western Front in Flanders highlighting locations of various WWI memorial sites, annotated by nationality and/or colour-coded for different stages of the war, & cross-referenced to a 64-page multilingual guide. Overall, this title combines the clearest road map & the largest numbers of marked sites, even though the base map shows the present-day road network with only the main roads numbered. The map, published in collaboration with the Memorial Museum in Paschendaele, is double-sided, extending to the coast but the main battlefields of the Ypres Salient, including Passendale (Paschendaele) & Messen (Messines), are together on one side. Front lines & directions of main attack routes are all colour-coded according to the by different stages of the war, from the Battle of the Yser in 1914, through Passendale, to the final advance in October 1918. Markings for memorials & war graves indicate the combatant nations (B for Belgian forces, C for British/ Commonwealth, F for French & D for German) & are cross-referenced to the 64-page booklet which accompanies the map. Other symbols indicate bunkers or trenches with public access, mine crates, museums & documentation centres, tourist information & visitors’ centres, etc. The base map has elevation colouring with rivers, marshes & wooded areas, & shows the current road & rail network. The accompanying 64-page illustrated booklet

Includes:: descriptions of the main sites, plus lists of monuments & war graves by regiments &, where appropriate, by names of individual soldiers. Also provided is a list of contact addresses for tourist & information centres. All information is in Flemish, English, French & German.

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Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I & was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia & the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes & more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometre by kilometre, devastating the environment & resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front. This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, & the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I & the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents & photographs taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before. ...

On the 4th of August 1914 the First World War started with the German invasion of Belgium. Four years later, on November 11th 1918, the weapons fell silent, & on the 28th of June 1919 the Peace Treaty of Versailles was signed. Between the start of the war & the signing of the treaty, millions of deaths were mourned worldwide, out of which hundreds of thousands were in Belgium. The In Flanders` Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium is devoted to the study of World War I. From the rich & unique collection of the Museum, The Great War, 1914-18 offers unique, iconic pictures from the war, never before published. The portraits here are not just of the soldiers` daily lives, but also the lives of the civilians. ...

The Great War: A Photographic Narrative offers an impressive 502-page selection of photographs from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Arranged into five sections, each prefaced with a detailed chronology of events & a historical summary, every picture has an explanatory caption &, where possible, is attributed. The advent of popular photography meant that the Great War was the first conflict to be documented in photographs, from the deserts of the Middle East to the mud of Western Front. This selection, chosen by Hilary Roberts, Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum & a specialist in the history of war photography, provides a fascinating record of the 1914 – 1918 conflict. ...

This is a moving anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War, illustrated by Jim Kay. The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a soldier`s writing case to the nose of a Zeppelin bomb, each object illuminates an aspect of life during the war, & each story reminds us of the millions of individual lives that were changed forever by the four years of fighting. This remarkable book is illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Jim Kay. It features new work from: AL Kennedy; Tracy Chevalier; Michael Morpurgo; David Almond; Marcus Sedgwick; Adele Geras; Ursula Dubosarsky; John Boyne; Timothee de Fombelle; Sheena Wilkinson; &, Tanya Lee Stone. It is a truly unique & thought-provoking anthology. Gripping stories by some of the world`s leading writers will bring the First World War alive for children. Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal for A Monster Calls, & was recently chosen by J.K. Rowling to illustrate the new full-colour editions of the Harry Potter series. Photographs of the objects which inspired each story will feature in the book. It is published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. ...