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The Great War: A Photographic Narrative

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 and a historical summary, every picture has an explanatory caption and, 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 and a specialist in the history of war photography, provides a fascinating record of the 1914 ‘“ 1918 conflict.