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Article: The Battlefields of the First World War The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2007
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The Battlefields of the First World War The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front Peter Barton (Foreword by Richard Holmes) Constable In Association with the Imperial War Museum 376pp + 2 CD-Roms 50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-84119-745-9
THIS BOOK IS A TRIUMPH of design, technology, and visual content, and enlarges our understanding of what it was like to have fought on the Western Front, some 450 miles in length, in 1914-18. It presents a series of secret panoramas taken by Royal Engineers at considerable risk, using a Panros camera on a tripod, with a telephoto lens, forming a series of glass plates then enlarged to 8x10 ins, printed on paper, and rolled up to ...