Arras: The spring 1917 offensive in panoramas including Vimy Ridge and Bullecourt

by Peter Barton (I)

In spring 1917, Allied troops on the Western Front began the largest ever artillery barrage on German positions, using over 2.7 million shells. This title features over 50 re-discovered British and German panoramic photographs of the battlegrounds, from the start of the first Battle of the Scarpe to the final push on Vimy Ridge.

Genres: History, Military Fiction, World War I, War

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Peter Barton is a historian, archaeologist and film-maker. He authored The Battlefields of the First World War after researching the forgotten Imperial War Museum panorama archive for eight years. His other books include The Somme, and Passchendaele.

He continues to lead an ongoing project to recover, interpret and publish all surviving battlefield panoramas - widely regarded as the 'missing link' for our full understanding of the First World War. He has since uncovered several equivalent unseen collections of panoramas in German archives, included here.

Barton has also led several major excavations on the Western Front, and produced the critically acclaimed documentary films The Underground War, The Soldiers' Pilgrimage and Conviction. He is co-secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefields Heritage Group.

Reviews

[Giel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een zeer gedetailleerde gids van de slagvelden bij Arras in Artesië in wo1. Niet leesbaar voor de gewone lezer door de detaillering en te zwaar voor een wandeling.
Bied een dag-tot-dag en actie-tot-actie verslag van een van de bloedigste slagen van de eerste wereldoorlog met heel veel kaarten en citaten uit originele brieven en dagboeken.