The Great War

I have never seen or read anything that brings the First World War quite so vividly alive. – Mark Haddon * Guardian *
Does [it] count as a book of the year? It’s certainly my meticulously illustrated panorama of the year. – Craig Taylor * Observer *
Monumental. – Nigel Jones * Sunday Telegraph Seven *
Sampling this later photographic narrative, published ahead of next year’s First World War centenary, left this reader feeling like Tommy Atkins after one of the Great Wa’’s artillery barrages: shell-shocked. – Sean O’Grady * Independent *
A spectacular pictorial history. – Fanny Blake * Woman & Home *
More than 500 pictures follow the conflict on multiple fronts. – Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
This is rich, riveting and often appalling visual history. * New York Times *
Showing the changing nature of photography, it also shows the extreme depth of the human loss incurred. * What Digital Camera *
This has an astonishing photo on the cover… And there’s no let-up in quality inside. Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts – she is the Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum – have done a terrific job of putting together the most arresting images of the war. – John Preston * Daily Mail *
[A] handsomely produced volume… Unforgettable pictures. * Word of Interiors *

Mark Holborn is known internationally as an editor of illustrated books. He has worked with many of the world’s leading photographers and artists, and with a number of the most important photographic archives.

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