{"product_id":"the-western-front-battlefields-memorials-and-cemeteries-of-the-first-world-war","title":"Marcel Belley: The Western Front [2017] paperback","description":"One of the rare books about the First World War that\u003cbr\u003evisually explores the efforts of the major combatants to\u003cbr\u003eremember the fallen along the entire length of the old\u003cbr\u003eWestern Front.\u003cbr\u003eThe area of Belgium and northern France that was the\u003cbr\u003eWestern Front is a place like no other. In a line running\u003cbr\u003eseven hundred kilometers from the English Channel\u003cbr\u003eto the Swiss border the horrors of industrialised war\u003cbr\u003econsumed men by the millions for over four years.\u003cbr\u003eWhen the War finally ended, entire societies were in\u003cbr\u003eshock and the ensuing outpouring of grief can be seen\u003cbr\u003etoday in the countless cemeteries and memorials that\u003cbr\u003edot the landscape.\u003cbr\u003eMuch has been written of the British experience\u003cbr\u003eand the work of the Commonwealth War Graves\u003cbr\u003eCommission including the major architects of national\u003cbr\u003ememorials, but little material can be found regarding\u003cbr\u003ethe American, French and German sites.\u003cbr\u003eIn 2013 Marcel and a friend travelled the entire\u003cbr\u003elength of the Western Front. The images he captured\u003cbr\u003etell an amazing story and the chapters of the book\u003cbr\u003eare organised in such a way as to help the reader to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand the stupendous efforts of the nations\u003cbr\u003einvolved to remember their fallen.","brand":"Belley, Marcel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549593784659,"sku":"9781910500675","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/belley-marcel-the-western-front-battlefields-memorials-and-cemeteries-of-the-first-world-war-9781910500675-50510813495635.jpg?v=1682446474","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-western-front-battlefields-memorials-and-cemeteries-of-the-first-world-war","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}