War Photographers showcases 50 images from IWMs unique collection that present photographers as both witnesses and participants in conflict. This selection features iconic photographs from the revolutionary Olive Edis, images from Bill Brandts Blitz series and works by official Photograph Units across a range of theatres.
ISBN-13: 9781912423668
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the poems of Wilfred Owen, whose biography he would later write, and to those of others who would be represented in his Oxford Books of War Poetry (1984, ......
Ford's novel, "Parade's End", has been acknowledged as one of the great British novels about World War I. This book features a selection of Ford's other writings about the war. It includes reminiscences, an unfinished novel, stories, and excerpts from letters.
War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war's aftermath. She focuses on "Southern ......
War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war's aftermath. She focuses on "Southern ......
Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II
* Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops Hatch filmed With the Marines at Tarawa, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject * New details on the controversy surrounding the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima * Hatch was Person of ......
Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his ......
Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his ......
In War Stories - a jumbo book of great stories about the military and war - editor Lamar Underwood has pulled together the finest writings about war-fighting that capture readers' imaginations. It includes legendary tales from the French and Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Great War, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq - more than 250 years of warfare ......
