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    The Great War at Sea- The Opening Salvos: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
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    The Great War at Sea- The Opening Salvos: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War

    By Bob Carruthers

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    This powerful collection, depicting the events of the Great War at sea, showcases the work of the contemporary combat artists and illustrators from the Great War era. The result is a stunning and vivid graphic record of life and death on the high-seas from 1914-18, as reported to contemporary audiences at a time when the events of the Great War were still unfolding.

    During the Great War artists and illustrators produced a highly accurate visual record of the fleeting moments the bulky cameras couldn't reproduce. These works form a body of war reportage that are as valid as the written word. Today, the work of the combat illustrators and the official war artists from the Great War era is overlooked by historians in favour of photographs, but these illustrations are nonetheless important, as they provide a contemporary record of hand-to-hand fighting, trench raids, aerial dogfights, sea battles, desperate last stands, night actions and cavalry charges.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateAug 30, 2015
    ISBN9781473871700
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    The Great War at Sea- The Opening Salvos: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
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    Bob Carruthers

    Bob Carruthers is an Emmy Award winning author and historian, who has written extensively on the Great War. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Bob is the author of a number of military history titles including the Amazon best seller The Wehrmacht in Russia.

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