The First World War

Name: The First World War
Brand: Book range
SKU: 9781904897392
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The First World War tells the story of that war from a fresh perspective, fully illustrated with objects, photographs, and works of art from IWM's unparalleled collections. It presents events as they happened, through quotations from diaries, letters, or reported conversations written or spoken within hours, days, or weeks of the events they describe. Through these voices and objects – emotive, immediate, and sometimes surprising – the story of the war is retold from a compelling new angle, allowing us to both understand and reflect upon the landmark conflict that still shapes our lives today.

Building the story around IWM's collections, the book presents events as they happened through quotations from diaries, letters, oral histories, and more. These accounts are amplified by images of countless objects from the war, from items that would have been in a soldier's kit to paintings created by war artists. Emotive, painful, and surprisingly immediate, this account of the experience and losses of World War I will introduce a new generation to this landmark conflict.

Though the Imperial War Museum in London is one of the most popular destinations for tourists and residents in all of the city, few people realise that it was founded in the midst of World War I. As the realisation of the scale and the costs of the war grew, the War Cabinet approved a proposal to create a national war museum to collect and display artefacts that would tell the story of the war as experienced by soldier and civilian alike – and, in particular, would testify to the sacrifices the war demanded.

Author Paul Cornish

Paperback, 256 pages

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