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. ...

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. Road map of the northern France at 1:410, 000 shows the whole of the front line in October 1914 from the Swiss border to 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 B ...

With a network covering much of the West Country, Wales & the West Midlands, & a history & tradition stretching back more than a century, the Great Western has been seen by many railway historians & enthusiasts as the most famous railway in the world. The history of the GWR was marked by an independence & swagger match by few other railways, its foundations laid by the flamboyant engineer I. K. Brunel who designed famous structures like Paddington Station & Saltash Bridge which still survive today. This book summarises Great Western Railway`s place in British history, one secured by a nostalgic fondness for a bygone era. ...

The Great Western Railway Map 1924: Paddington to Penzance, folded version, from The Old Book House presents the whole 305 miles long route divided into two separate panels, printed side by side on one, over two metres long strip. All stations along the route are marked & annotated with distances from Paddington & to Penzance. The map also shows tunnels & other railway lines connecting to or crossing the route, indicating sections closed since 1924. All along its course the route is annotated with comments on various features of the line & local sights, etc, including text describing changes since 1924. The map is presented in an elegant paper envelope & comes with a separate small booklet providing more historical background. This title is also available as a wallmap. ...

The Great Western Railway Map 1924: Paddington to Penzance, folded version, from The Old Book House presents the whole 305 miles long route divided into two separate panels, printed side by side on one, over two metres long strip. All stations along the route are marked & annotated with distances from Paddington & to Penzance. The map also shows tunnels & other railway lines connecting to or crossing the route, indicating sections closed since 1924. All along its course the route is annotated with comments on various features of the line & local sights, etc, including text describing changes since 1924. The map is presented in an elegant paper envelope & comes with a separate small booklet providing more historical background. This title is also available as a wallmap. ...

American wine
- once an object of ridicule
- now holds its own against the world`s best. In ” The Great Wines of America”,

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