Bibliograph

Flanders 1915, rare photographs from wartime archives, Jon Cooksey

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Flanders 1915, rare photographs from wartime archives, Jon Cooksey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flanders 1915

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jon Cooksey

Series statement

Images of war

Sub title

rare photographs from wartime archives

Summary

By Christmas 1914 Britain's Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers leapt at the chance to serve their country overseas and were soon on their way to the trenches and the harsh realities of war on the Western Front. Flanders 1915 tells the story, through rare and previously unpublished photographs and extended captions, of one of those eager Territorial battalions posted to Flanders during the first twelve months of WW1. It forms a unique and intimate record of the early years of war; many images captured on film by the private cameras of the battalion's junior officers, before official censorship was established. Above all it is a rare and outstanding portrait of the 'great adventure' of war in the days before Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele and the resulting lengthy casualty lists

Target audience

adult

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