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Vries, Guus De

 
9781473856684: The Great War Through Picture Postcards
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ISBN 10 : 147385668X ISBN 13 : 9781473856684
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2016

Synopsis

During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. A postcard from home offered the soldier in the trenches a short escape from their daily hell, while receiving a postcard from a man on the frontline was literally a sign of life. These postcards create a vivid record of life at home and abroad during the Great War, both from the messages they carried and the pictures on the cards themselves. The depiction of the war on the contemporary postcards is extremely diverse: The ways in which the postcards depict the war differs greatly; from simple enthusiasm, patriotism and propaganda to humour, satire and bitter hatred. Others portray the wishes and dreams (nostalgia, homesickness and pin-ups) of the soldiers, the technological developments of the armies, not to mention the daily life and death on the battlefield, including the horrific reality of piles of bodies and mass-graves.Altogether, this extraordinarily vivid contemporary record of the Great War offers a unique and detailed insight in the minds and mentality of the soldiers and their families who lived and died in the war to end all wars.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Guus de Vries is a historian from Oosterbeek, the Netherlands. He completed his studies at Nijmegen and Tours, focussing his research on the development and use of military small arms in the 19th and 20th century. He has published numerous articles in specialist magazines in Belgium, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia, the UK and the USA and has also (co-)authored seventeen books on firearms history.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
147385668X
ISBN 13 
9781473856684
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
166
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