Featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Military History Quarterly, and more


"If you look hard enough you can almost see the thousands of ghosts whose bodies are fertilizing the homeland.”
—The New York Times

"...A brilliant concept."
—The Daily Beast


"Imposing yet illuminating . . . [a] visual journey of contemplation."
—BookPage

"This massive, beautifully
produced book by photographer and war correspondent Yan Morvan is an important new historical resource on the subject of war."
—Black & White Magazine

"A monumental volume."
—Military History Quarterly


"Morvan, a French documentary photographer whose work often depicts conflict, turns his focus to landscape portraiture, documenting historical battlefields from around the world in this evocative photo book. ... The combination of historical anecdotes and images fuels readers’ imaginations; for example, a photo of the Isonzo River in Gorizia, Italy, is made harrowing by a paragraph-length caption noting that 50,000 men died in the region during WWI. This striking photo collection provides a new view of the history of war."
—Publishers Weekly

"...it is rare to come across a book that truly measures up to superlatives like awesome, magnificent, or epic. This colossal volume requires all of these descriptions and more. ... Engaging, gorgeous, and thought provoking, this massive tome is a truly landmark example of the synergy between military history and the visual arts."
—New York Journal of Books

A monumental photo book documenting the scenes of more than 3,000 years of human conflict.
After a distinguished—and death-defying—career documenting the wars of today, Yan Morvan decided to undertake a different kind of battlefield photography, one that would show how war has imprinted its awful memory on all of human history, and on the landscape as well. Traveling the globe, he sought out the scenes of history’s most important battles, positioning his 8 × 10 Deardorff view camera to capture the perspective of the soldier on the front lines.

The result of his decade-long quest is this monumental volume, presenting 430 images of 250 historic battlefields, from the Trojan War to Muammar Gaddafi’s last stand. In between are the battlegrounds of the Persian Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the World Wars, the Vietnam War, and many others. The text includes a concise account of each battle, as well as an interview with Morvan about his work.
Battlefields is a staggering work of art, an important historical document, and a memorial to all those who have fought and died on the battlefield.

Les mer
Battlefields is a monumental photo book documenting the scenes of more than 3,000 years of human conflict.
"Rarely has anyone attempted so broad a spread of historical coverage. I wouldn’t have dared and many who do flounder into the morass of banality. Morvan, however, doesn’t just write about his subject, he feels it, drawing on a deep well of experience and great breadth of knowledge. If history is your "thing" then you need this one on your shelves!" –John Sadler, battlefields tour guide, lecturer at the University of Sunderland Centre For Lifelong Learning, and author of numerous military history publications ". . . Churchill explained that to understand history’s most consequential battles, historians must see the battlefields for themselves. But even Churchill could not have seen them all. He would surely have devoured this magnificent and incomparably comprehensive volume." –Alan Axelrod, author of The Battle of the Somme and Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps ". . . Battlefields is a singular achievement. Through his expert lens, photographer Yan Morvan takes us on a military history journey to nearly every corner of the globe, from the fields of ancient warfare to iconic Civil War, World War II, Vietnam battlefields and beyond. I am awestruck by the comprehensiveness and artistic majesty of this fine book. I found it to be incredibly moving and I believe you will too." –John C. McManus, Ph.D., Curators’ Distinguished Professor, U.S. Military History, Misssouri S&T, Author of The Dead and Those About to Die and Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II "Battlefields is the result of an extensive journey through time and space. Yan Morvan has visited the sites of 250 of history’s major and minor conflict sites, ranging from the Israelite conquest of Canaan to the 2011 Libyan Civil War, and presents these in 430 striking photographs. Few of the images show war in any obvious sense, but they are all the more powerful for that. All question what these seemingly tranquil, sometimes even mundane locations mean for us today and in doing so invite us to reflect on the tangled relationship between memory, war, and the physical environment." –Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford "Yan Morvan’s Battlefields is an interesting addition to the literature detailing how battlefields look now. His work brings the sharp eye of the photographer to these scenes, well-known in military history and through accounts of the fighting. The juxtaposition, in some cases, of the modern world either alongside or on top of these sites is especially poignant." –Dr. Rob Havers, noted military historian and President of the George C. Marshall Foundation
Les mer
Extensive publicity and marketing campaigns for this title of true cultural importance, including the following: Pre-pub promotional materials, including print BLADs, EBLADs, and galleys  Coverage in national print and online publications  Coverage in history, military, and photography publications  Advertising in publishing trade publications and wholesaler catalogs  Online advertising campaign, including targeted Facebook & Instagram ads and content marketing
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780789213075
Publisert
2018-11-01
Utgiver
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.; Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Høyde
327 mm
Bredde
269 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
668

Fotograf
Foreword by

Om bidragsyterne

Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy is an Oxford-trained historian of ancient military history. He is the author of twelve scholarly and popular histories on the Roman world and its battles and eight novels in two ongoing series of historical military fiction on the Roman and Napoleonic eras. He has appeared in many documentaries for the BBC, the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic.

Yan Morvan is known equally for photographing the bikers and gangsters of his native France, and as a war correspondent. His coverage of the Lebanese Civil War for the Sipa agency and Newsweek won multiple awards, and he has also photographed armed conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Libya.