World War I Postcard Collection
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Author | : Nigel Sadler |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1445639793 |
A fascinating selection of postcards encapsulates the war to end all wars.
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Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Frank Jacob |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1622735951 |
For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka's collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that - in many soldiers' accounts - is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading.As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
Author | : Peter Doyle |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2011-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0747811865 |
Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the thoughts and emotions of those left behind. Very different in their illustration, and in their writing, between the beginning of the war and the end, postcards provide a social history of the war in microcosm. Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.
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Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Postcards |
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Author | : Robynn Clairday |
Publisher | : Square One Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780757001024 |
"Postcards From World War II" is a unique look at the history of our nation at war presented through postcard images and messages. 150 full-color postcards.
Author | : Kate J. Cole |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2016-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445635216 |
Postcards from the Front 1914–1919 captures the essence of this medium in a unique and fascinating way, bringing to life the pathos, the trauma and the mud and the blood of Flanders and France as the embattled Tommies wrote home to their loved ones.
Author | : Tonie Holt |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 1298 |
Release | : 2014-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473841011 |
This is a new edition of this classic book which includes, in its over 700 postcards, many new, powerful propaganda images from nations on both sides of this epic conflict. Here are cards from the Queen's Collection, cards from America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Rumania, Salonika, Serbia... All are faithfully reproduced from the original, whether in dramatic black and white or in exuberant colour and they are all at least 100 years old. But this is not just a picture book.Here is a rich treasure trove to be dipped into for dilettante pleasure or to be read seriously as a thematic and contemporary history of the war. These cards have been collected over many years and a good number are rare and extremely valuable, both intrinsically and for the fascinating information contained in the informative running text and in the thoughtful captions (an example appears below, just one of the over 700). This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to sense the feelings and emotions of those who lived through, and fought in, the First World War; readers will appreciate the Twitter-like brevity of the captions, the power of the images and enjoy the chase to understand what lies behind them.This handsome and fascinating book uses hundreds of the immensely popular picture postcards of the '14-'18 period to document the course and effects of the Great War, with all its dramatis personae, its humour, suffering, patriotism, sentimentality and fervour.
Author | : Bodleian Library |
Publisher | : Postcards from |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Postcards |
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The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its various manifestations.The cards have been selected to show how life progressed from day to day in and out of the trenches. We see wounded men smiling obligingly for the camera; others appear to be suffering from the onslaught of boredom. Some take part in a mock party with very meagre provisions. One image shows a group of men kneeling to receive communion before going into battle.The tone of postcards encompasses the range of human experience, from sombre realism to light-hearted humour. There is also the soldier's good-natured lightly smutty card.This is a fascinating insight into the everyday lives and behaviour of the men who fought one of the most gruesome wars in history.