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Chargement... The First World War Galleriespar Paul Cornish
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World War I continues to be remembered as one of the most horrific confrontations in human history, as the combination of trench warfare and modern munitions claimed the lives of 16 million soldiers and civilians with many more wounded or missing. But the effects of war reached far beyond the battlefields. One hundred years later, changes it wrought to the world's cultural and political landscape continue to shape lives. Paul Cornish's The First World War Galleries revisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Founded in 1917, the museum has as one of its missions the collection of items related to the war, and it opened to the public in 1920 with a wide range of materials, including film footage, oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles. As curator of the museum's forthcoming First World War Gallery, a major new project planned for the centenary, Cornish emulates the exhibition's accessible approach to offer a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history. To show why this tragedy occurred, Cornish traces the war's roots to 1900, carrying his narrative through to the close of the war in1918 and its consequences into the 1920s, overturning a great many myths along the way. With stunning photography and a wealth of new research, The First World War Galleries offers a testament and tribute to the Great War that military and history buffs will not want to miss. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Not a guide to the galleries as I had first thought but a general book on WW1 illustrated with items from the IWM collections.
One sentence devoted to Mons and Le Cateau and not much more to First Ypres.
Some interesting facts. Good, concise description of tools and techniques and weapons of war, which are set in the context of phases of the war or major Battles - eg deadlock in 1915 - trench mortars, steel helmets, grenades; Loos - gas warfare. Missed opportunity to talk about the Lee Enfield and 18pdr in the context of the retreat from Mons/Néry gun. Good, telling use of short quotations embedded in the text, supporting and driving the narrative.
Elements grouped around The Somme and Third Ypres are interesting and capture the effects of changing equipments and tactics clearly and concisely, although the section on the Somme appears to fall back too much on the old "total failure" orthodoxy. Similar with the handling of 'Operation Michael' - also fails to mention contextually the fact that Gough's understrength 5th Army was overextended as a result of Lloyd-George's decision to refuse more manpower to the Western Front whilst simultaneously agreeing to extend the British portion of the front. Interesting fact about the number of shells fired in the German opening bombardment exceeding the British artillery preparation for the week to 1 July 1916.
Good on the global and interlinked nature of WW1 and the grand strategic sweep.
Would have benefitted from more pictures of objects from the museum's collections. (