Author: Terry GilderPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028812772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Hadley in Old Picture Postcards
Author: Terry GilderPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028812772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Houghton in Old Picture Postcards
Author: Ken RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028831261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Posters of The Great War
Author: Frédérick HadleyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473822645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Until the arrival of radio and television, and despite the influence of newspapers, posters were the major medium for mass communication. During the Great War all the belligerent nations produced an extraordinary variety of them - and they did so on a massive scale. As the 200 wartime and immediate post-war posters selected for this book reveal, they were one of the most potent, and memorable, ways of conveying news, information and propaganda. In the most graphic and colourful fashion they promoted values such as patriotism and sacrifice. By using rallying symbols such as flags as well as historical and mythical models, they sought to maintain morale and draw people together by stirring up anger against the enemy. Today their remarkable variety of styles give us an instant insight into the themes and messages the military and civilian authorities wished to publicize.The sheer inventiveness of the poster artists is demonstrated as they focused on key aspects of the propaganda campaign in Britain, France, Germany, America and Russia. The diversity of their work is displayed here in chapters that cover recruitment, money raising, the soldier, the enemy, the family and the home front, films and the post-war world. A century ago, when these images were first viewed, they must have been even more striking in contrast to the poor-quality newspaper photographs and postcards that were available at the time. The Great War was to change that forever. It introduced a means of propaganda that was novel, persuasive and above all, powerful. It was the first media war, and the poster played a key role in it.
The Past
Author: Tessa HadleyPublisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780062270412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A Time Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year • A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Times Editors’ Choice In her most accessible, commercial novel yet, the “supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks. With five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill and an irresistible setup to The Past, a novel in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. Sophisticated and sleek, Roland’s new wife (his third) arouses his sisters’ jealousies and insecurities. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice’s ex-boyfriend, becomes enchanted with Molly, Roland’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran’s young children make an unsettling discovery in a dilapidated cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it’s least expected, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the eldest sister. Over the course of this summer holiday, the family’s stories and silences intertwine, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life—bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end. With subtle precision and deep compassion, Tessa Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy, the indelible connections of memory and affection, the fierce, nostalgic beauty of the natural world, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer’s extraordinary talents.
Boston in Old Picture Postcards
Author: Geoff O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028856417
Category : Boston (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Norwich
Author: Annual Report of the Children's Hospital ...
Author: Children's Hospital (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Exeter in Old Picture Postcards
Author: Peter ThomasPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028835610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Chester Le Street 1
Author: European Library, The NetherlandsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028845039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Henley-on-Thames in Old Picture Postcards
Author: Francis SheppardPublisher:
ISBN: 9789028825239
Category : Henley-on-Thames (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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