Bibliograph

The Great War seen from the air, in Flanders fields, 1914-1918, Birger Stichelbaut, Piet Chielens

Type

Label

The Great War seen from the air, in Flanders fields, 1914-1918, Birger Stichelbaut, Piet Chielens

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-348) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplansmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Great War seen from the air

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

873591218

Responsibility statement

Birger Stichelbaut, Piet Chielens

Sub title

in Flanders fields, 1914-1918

Summary

Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes, and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometer by kilometer, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front

Target audience

adult

Classification