Abandoned Places Of World War I

Author : Neil Faulkner
Publisher : Abandoned
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1838860452

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Abandoned Places of World War I by Neil Faulkner Pdf

From the preserved remains of the mighty Przemyśl fortress to the underwater wreckage of German warship SMS Scharnhorst near the Falkland Islands, Abandoned Places of World War I features more than 150 striking photographs from around the world. An overgrown concrete bunker at Ypres; a rusting gun carriage in a field in Flanders; perfectly preserved trenchworks at Vimy, northern France; a rocky mountaintop observation post high in the Tyrolean mountains. More than 100 years after the end of World War I, the conflict's legacy can still be seen from Europe to the South Atlantic. Abandoned Places of World War I explores more than 100 bunkers, trench systems, tunnels, fortifications, and gun emplacements from North America to the Pacific. Included are defensive structures, such as Fort Douaumont at Verdun, the site of the Western Front's bloodiest battle; the elaborately constructed tunnels of the Wellington Quarry, near Arras, designed to provide a safe working hospital for wounded British soldiers; and crumbling concrete pill boxes in Anzac Cove, Turkey.

Author : Robert Grenville
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781782749882

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Abandoned Cold War Places by Robert Grenville Pdf

Featuring 170 striking photographs, Abandoned Cold War Places is a fascinating visual history of the relics left behind by both sides from the late 1940s to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Abandoned
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 1782745491

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World War II Abandoned Places by Michael Kerrigan Pdf

This title explores more than 100 bunkers, pillboxes, submarine bases, forts, and gun emplacements from the North Sea to Okinawa. Included are defensive structures, such as the Maginot Line on France's eastern border with Germany, Germany's own western and eastern border defences, and the Atlantic Wall, the German-built bunkers and pillboxes on the coast from Denmark down to Brittany.

Author : Kieron Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 1435163060

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Abandoned Places by Kieron Connolly Pdf

"Featuring more than 100 locations, from ghost towns to amusement parks, roads to railways, hotels to hospitals. From war to chemical disasters, from grand follies to changing fashions, the story behind each striking image is explained."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Chris McNab,Amber Books
Publisher : Abandoned
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1838860878

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Abandoned World War II Aircraft, Tanks & Warships by Chris McNab,Amber Books Pdf

Illustrated with more than 150 unique photographs, Abandoned World War II Weapons allows the history buff and general reader to explore the detritus of this great, destructive conflict in every part of the world. The scattered remains of a German bomber on Spitsbergen Island; Sherman tanks waterlogged off Omaha Beach; Japanese merchant ships sunk off the coast of New Guinea. More than 75 years after the end of World War II, the conflict's legacy can still be seen from the Arctic wastes to the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. The six years of World War II produced a greater number and variety of weapons than any other conflict before or since. This included more than 5 million tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and other self-propelled weapons; 8 million artillery guns; almost a million military aircraft; more than 50,000 ships and submarines; as well as many millions of rifles, machine guns, and handguns. Today, in every corner of the world, the remnants of this epic conflict can still be seen. Long-buried partisan weapons caches in the Belorussian forest; sand-covered trucks in the Sahara desert; crashed American bombers and Japanese anti-aircraft guns in the jungles of New Guinea; tank wrecks on old military training grounds; thousands of unexploded bombs in the depths of the world's seas and oceans; or the hundreds of aircraft and 30 Japanese ships destroyed in Truk Lagoon, the biggest graveyard of ships in the world and today a popular dive site.

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Abandoned
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1782748628

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Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan Pdf

Built to last, built to impress, built with style - it is all the more remarkable when grand buildings fall into disrepair and ruination. The reasons for abandonement can be manifold, including political upheaval, economic downturns, shifting borders, changing tastes, natural and man-made disasters. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Places tells, in 170 striking images, the stories of more than 130 palatial ruins from across the world.

Author : Lawrence Joffe
Publisher : Abandoned
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1782747699

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Abandoned Sacred Places by Lawrence Joffe Pdf

From Roman temples to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, these hallowed halls have been abandoned to nature. More than 200 outstanding images show what happens to sacred places when humanity retreats. What happens when the congregation moves away from its place of worship? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean that people can no longer reach their church, synagogue, or mosque? Through magnificent, sometimes haunting images, Abandoned Sacred Places explores more than 100 lost worlds, including ancient and modern temples, synagogues, churches, mosques, and stone circles. Organized geographically, this unforgettable volume wanders from Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France to crumbling inner-city churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from Mayan pyramids in Mexico to Hindu temples lost in the Indian jungle.

Author : Ciaràn Fahey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 381480208X

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Abandoned Berlin by Ciaràn Fahey Pdf

Author : Neil Faulkner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300196832

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Lawrence of Arabia's War by Neil Faulkner Pdf

A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia's War, the author rewrites the history of T. E. Lawrence's legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today's divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1838860916

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The World War I Illustrated Atlas by Michael S. Neiberg Pdf

With expert, accessible text and accompanying archival photographs, this complete atlas provides an invaluable work of reference for both the general reader and the serious student of World War I. World War I Illustrated Atlas is a comprehensive visual guide to this complex conflict. In fine detail, it plots the exact course of the land, sea, and air campaigns, enabling the reader to trace the ebb and flow of the fortunes of all sides. With more than 180 maps, every theater of war is covered--from the Western Front to Penang, from Gallipoli to Galicia, from Dogger Bank to Dalmatia, from Romania to Rhodesia, and from the Falklands to Togo and the Sinai desert. All the maps have been specially commissioned from an expert cartographer. Each map is designed to highlight a particular aspect of the war--thus maps vary in shape and size, with some giving a global perspective while others depict the exact movement of armed forces on land, sea, or in the air. Battles such as Jutland, the Somme, Cambrai, and the Gallipoli campaign are shown in great detail. All maps are accompanied by an explanatory key.

Author : David Donald
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 0760303231

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German Aircraft of World War II by David Donald Pdf

Analyzes each aircraft in detail, including development, prototype histories, design teams and aerodynamic problems that had to be overcome.

Author : Gordon Goldsborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Abandoned buildings
ISBN : 1927855489

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Abandoned Manitoba by Gordon Goldsborough Pdf

colour photosTravel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at abandoned sites around Manitoba, describing their features, what caused them to be abandoned, and what they tell us about the history of the province.

Author : Niklas Möring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cathedrals
ISBN : 3922442730

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Cologne Cathedral in World War II by Niklas Möring Pdf

Author : Mémorial Caen Normandie (Museum)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1595586814

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World War II by Mémorial Caen Normandie (Museum) Pdf

Assembles a unique and rich trove of historical images and artefacts of World War II, collected in Caen - one of the French cities devastated by the pivotal conflict. Including imagery that has never before been available to readers outside France, as well as a concise historical atlas - replete with full-colour maps, rare colour photographs, period artwork, timelines and reproductions of fascinating letters, documents and historical objects - this beautiful and cutting-edge history offers a completely new overview of the modern era's most destructive war.

Author : David Ross
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782749845

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Abandoned Industrial Places by David Ross Pdf

Once these industrial spaces were celebrated and thriving; now, they're ghostly and forlorn. Ranging from Cuba's unfinished nuclear power station to English atomic test sites, from Nevada's silver towns to a French coal-washing facility, from a sugar factory in Belgrade to a Japanese mining island, and, yes, Chernobyl, Abandoned Industrial Places captures these imposing, often eerie, structures. Some are magnificent pieces of architecture, others appear like ragged pieces of piping out of science fiction, but each one tells a fascinating story.