Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 1914-1918
A fascinating photographic book to remember the Great War battlefields and the men who died there
Book: Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 1914-1918
Images shape the memory of the Great War until now – black-and-white photographs of devastation and battlefields. The more astounding are images that show the old battlefields in a completely different way – photographs full of colour and comeliness.
After the wars of the 19th century nature reconquered the battlefields in shortest time; a few month after heavy battles the cornfields were again attending the harvest.
In the Great War this was different: too heavy had been the artillery impact on the soil of Europe and the traces of its devastation had been visible for long.
But after hundred year also these scars only can bee found at a few places and give an impression how waste they had been laying once.
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The author: Michael St Maur Sheil
Michael St Maur Sheil shows with his gaudy photographs in this book, how the battlefields in France, Alsace-Loraine, Italy, Eastern Prussia, the Namib desert, the Dardanelles an in Palestine look today.
He didn’t go for the dull industrial estates that were built over the old trenches but focused on the way nature healt the blody wounds of the Great War and recreated flourishing landscapes.
The results are photographs of an outstanding poetic power.
In a ten years photographical odyssey Michael St Maur Sheil traveled the sites of the Great War together with the late Richard Holmes and built up a unique collection of photographs.
A collection that pays tribute to the adamant course of time and shows how nature metamorphosed those places of slaughter and horror into landscapes of amazing beauty and silence.
THE BOOK
FIELDS OF BATTLE LANDS OF PEACE 1914-1918
Author: Michael St Maur Sheil
264 pages, 153 photos. 29,5 cm × 30,5 cm
Hardcover with "French Fold"-dust cover
Text in english, french and spanish language
Price: 65,00 euro
For more information about the work behind the book:
www.fieldsofbattle1418.org
Book: Fields of Battle Lands of Peace 1914-1918