Superb World War I - Photographic history.
It shows the daily life behind the front lines in 120 photos.
Pictorial documentation of field church services, soldier life behind the front, forest camps, theater performances, competitions and folk festivals, craftsmen, field butchery, field bakery, mushroom cultivation, disinfection and delousing, rat hunting, combating flies and mosquitoes, field bathing facilities, bathing trains, field newspapers ...
the occupied zones at Vosges, Péronne, Snaeskerke, Ostend, Messieres, Lida, Brest-Litovsk, Suwalki, Isonzo, Willerval, Laon, ...
... with many additional shots of material, supplies, etc. ...
... many pictures are classified without specific characteristics, but they are nevertheless assigned to certain fronts by means of typical features (such as the Vosges forest).
The great bulk of the graphic material in this rare book is not available elsewhere.
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