The Great War: A Photographic Narrative

The Great War: A Photographic Narrative (2013) is a large-format collection edited by Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts, drawn from the Imperial War Museums archive. Hundreds of photographs tell the story of World War I from its outbreak through the trenches, home fronts and aftermath. The images, many rarely seen, cover the Western Front and other theaters and the war's human cost.

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Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "The Great War" by Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts. There are many new books out about World War One, the war that changed history, but none more arresting than this compendium of photographs. You see crowds cheering the announcement of hostilities in 1914 and then you see the carnage of the trenches a few years later. It's an expensive book, but one to treasure.”