{"product_id":"the-battlefields-of-the-first-world-war-the-unseen-panoramas-of-the-western-front","title":"The Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere are the great battlegrounds of the First World War as you have never seen them before  from the First Battle of Ypres where gallant men on horseback find things do not go to plan to the closing horror of the mud at Passchendaele. The book showcases the most eye-opening panoramas  along with poignant personal photographs and the recollections of the soldiers caught in action in the battles shown. These panoramic photographs were the nearest thing to satellite mapping in their day  taken by the British Royal Engineers for intelligence purposes thoughout the war. The photographers had to spend tens of minutes with their head above the parapet - a view normally seen by the troops only through a trench periscope. Many of the images give a field of view of up to 160 degrees  and so sharp that individual figures - a soldier picking lice on his shirt  a sniper lying in wait - can be made out. The images cover the whole of the Western Front  end to end. For the general buyer they have an impact unlike anything seen before. For the specialist  they document a lost world  putting other forms of archive into temporal  topographical and geographical context. What they reveal challenges existing perceptions of the First World War. As well as tortured landscapes of featureless mud  they also show fields of flowers  beaches  churches still standing. There are desperate scenes for sure  but an important lesson is that much of the war was fought in a real  recognizable landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949287305269,"sku":"ByrdShop_1841197459","price":69.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781841197456.jpg?v=1770071203","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-battlefields-of-the-first-world-war-the-unseen-panoramas-of-the-western-front","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}