Fields of Memory: A Testimony to the Great War

By Anne Roze

Book Overview

"You know what the war was like, my friend, but who else will remember when we are dead?--Jacques Meyer. More than eight million died, and countless others were wounded, in World War One's terrible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841881112
• ISBN13: 9781841881119
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Journey through Battlefields of WW1

This book by Anne Roze is a pictorial history of the battlegrounds of World War One. Roze captures the deep sadness and utter futility of 'The Great War' with photos of the battlegrounds as they are today. These are accompanied by smaller photographs from the era itself, of which the majority are of soldiers in the trenches. There is also comprehensive text describing the photographs and historical background. The modern photographs are really breathtaking in how they convey the solemnity of what they are actually portraying. World War One is a not an often visited subject, both in literary or movie form, which in some respects is a shame. The scale of horror endured by the men on both sides is really staggering. To have the significance of this lost with new generations is like turning a blind eye to a lesson that should not be forgotten. This is an attractive publication and is highly recommended for those interested in the history of World War One, with emphasis on how the battlegrounds of old have aged.

What an awesome book!!!!!

This is about the coolest and funiest book I ever found! It tells you how to hide stuff and also all the ways you can make your own secret hiding places. Its so great to read this book! And it cost like FIve dollars. And there's an amazing web site at secrethidingplaces. com My friends and I started a club around this book and we are passing notes and having fun in school and making really good hiding places!!!! U won't believe what you are gonna learn from this book and the writer really writes in a funny way! It's like the besst book of the year! I recomend it to anyone who has a brother like mine! Go for it!!Brad B.

Moving and Respectful

This book is full of pictures of WWI battle locations. Half of the photos are black and white war era shots, some of which graphically depict the awful conditions of the trenches. Complementing these are beautiful color photos of the battlefields, memorials, ruins, and cemetaries as they appear today. The narration of the war in chronological order is largely from the perspective of those in the trenches, with interesting diversions about the life, geography, etc. that interacted with the battle areas. As I began to read the progression of this stupid war I was overcome with the same feeling I had viewing the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. -- A slow, sad journey into the depths of senseless death, yet presented in a way which honoured the millions who fell at these sites in WWI.