The Victorians and Edwardians at War

John Hannavy (Author)

Description

By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie' was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful' in a way the work of the war artist could never be, despite the initially long exposures and cumbersome equipment, cameras have been used to document war ever since the celebrated photographs of Roger Fenton in the Crimea. Through a rich selection of images – many of them never before published – this book tells the story of the photographers who chronicled Britain's Victorian and Edwardian wars and those who fought in them.

Table of Contents

Preface / The Camera Goes to War / The First War Photographers / The Crimea / Campaigns in India / Engagements in China / The Afghan Wars / The War in Zululand, 1879 / The First Anglo–Boer War / The Second Anglo–Boer War / Wars in the Sudan / Building a Modern Navy / Further Reading / Index

Product details

Published 10 Sep 2012

Format Paperback

Edition 1st

Extent 112

ISBN 9780747811336

Imprint Shire Publications

Illustrations 7 b/w; 160 col

Dimensions 210 x 149 mm

Series Shire Library

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing