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For the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this astonishing book collects over five hundred pictures and rarely seen material from the archive of the Imperial War Museum.

About the Author

Mark Holborn is known internationally as an editor of illustrated books. He has worked with many of the world's leading photographers and artists, and with a number of the most important photographic archives.

Reviews

I have never seen or read anything that brings the First World War quite so vividly alive.
*Guardian*

Does [it] count as a book of the year? It's certainly my meticulously illustrated panorama of the year.
*Observer*

Monumental.
*Sunday Telegraph Seven*

Sampling this later photographic narrative, published ahead of next year's First World War centenary, left this reader feeling like Tommy Atkins after one of the Great Wa'’s artillery barrages: shell-shocked.
*Independent*

A spectacular pictorial history.
*Woman & Home*

More than 500 pictures follow the conflict on multiple fronts.
*Tatler*

This is rich, riveting and often appalling visual history.
*New York Times*

Showing the changing nature of photography, it also shows the extreme depth of the human loss incurred.
*What Digital Camera*

This has an astonishing photo on the cover... And there’s no let-up in quality inside. Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts – she is the Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum – have done a terrific job of putting together the most arresting images of the war.
*Daily Mail*

[A] handsomely produced volume... Unforgettable pictures.
*Word of Interiors*