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Fields of battle, lands of peace
- Title
- Fields of battle, lands of peace / photography, Michael St Maur Sheil ; foreword, Sir Hew Strachan ; text, Michael St Maur Sheil.
- Author
- St. Maur Sheil, Michael
- Publication
- [Baden, Austria] : Edition Lammerhuber, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Strachan, Hew
- Description
- 263 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
- Summary
- This book is a photographic odyssey through the lands of the First World War. For more than ten years the photographer travelled from the dust of the Namib deserts to the frozen heights of the Vosges to create a unique collection of images that document how time and nature have transformed these places of horror and killing into landscapes of great beauty and tranquillity...If anyone wants the reason for these photographs then they need look no further than the thoughts of a veteran leaving the shattered fields of the Somme who wrote: "No, they would not be lonely, I saw that bare country before me...the miles and miles of torn earth...the litter, the dead trees. But the country would come back to life, the grass would grow again, the wild flowers return. They would lie still and at peace below the singing larks, beside the serenely flowing rivers. They could not feel lonely, they would have one another. And...though we were going home and leaving them behind, we belonged to them, and they would be a part of us for ever." (P. J. Campbell).
- Subject
- Language (note)
- In English, French and Spanish.
- Call Number
- JQG 17-1057
- ISBN
- 3903101079
- 9783903101074
- OCLC
- 952207227
- Author
- St. Maur Sheil, Michael, photographer, writer of added text.
- Title
- Fields of battle, lands of peace / photography, Michael St Maur Sheil ; foreword, Sir Hew Strachan ; text, Michael St Maur Sheil.
- Publisher
- [Baden, Austria] : Edition Lammerhuber, 2016.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English, French and Spanish.
- Added Author
- Strachan, Hew, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 17-1057