A Doctor in the Great War - Andrew Davidson
Unseen Photographs of Life in the Trenches
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Featuring 250 previously unknown photographs, this is the extraordinary true story of a young doctor whose photos left behind an astonishing firsthand account of life at the front of World War I. As a twenty-five-year-old medical officer and one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross, Fred Davidson took countless photographs while he served in the trenches from 1914-1915. Though he took them illegally, more than 250 of the photographs shot by Davidson and his fellow officers survived and are now shared for the first time in this harrowing, eye-catching, and poignant narrative of the Great War. In A Doctor in the Great War, author Andrew Davidson--the grandson of Fred--depicts the everyday lives of soldiers, both on and off duty: from the parade ground at Glasgow's Maryhill to the brothels of Armentieres, from the band of brothers who dubbed themselves "Old Contemptibles" to the original folding Kodak and Ansco cameras they used. It is the story of the 1st Cameronians, who achieved notoriety for sellin...
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2014Uitgever: Exhibitions International320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1476777551ISBN-13: 9781476777559Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Marble Arch Press: New York, 2014. Bound in boards with dustwrapper, 318 pp., black-and-white photo's, 18x25x2,5 cm, light traces of use on dustwrapper, in very good condition (F/VG). [Categorie: Geschiedenis] [Auteur: Davidson, Andrew.] [Pagina's: 318] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: A Doctor in the Great War.]
