Roze, Anne; Foley, John & Rouaud, Jean. — Fields of memory : a testimony to the Great War.

London : Cassell, 1999. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 232 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the publisher : In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. from in Flanders Fields, John McCrae. The First World War dominated Europe for four years. More than eight million died, and countless others were wounded in the terrible series of offensives and counter offensives. Today, more than eighty years after the cease-fire, the French and Belgian countryside still bears the scars of those battles. Dozens of cemeteries and memorials commemorate those who died, and the crumbling remains of fortifications and trenches testify to the wretchedness and destruction of the war. From mobilization in 1914 to the Armistice in 1918, Fields of Memory recounts the key events of the war, including the battles of Marne, Ypres, Flanders, Verdun, Somme and Passchendaele. The book draws on a wide variety of contemporary material, including journals, letters, newspaper reports and the writings of key literary figures of the time, such as Wilfred Owen, Erich Maria Remarque, André Maurois and Siegfried Sassoon. This evocative history is beautifully illustrated with a combination of pictures and photographs from before the war, during the war and photographs showing the battlefields as they are today. John Foley's serene photographs of the present day landscape contrast starkly with the wartime pictures to create a vivid and moving record of the war. ISBN 9780304353248.