Ghosts of the Somme: Filming the Great Battle July 1916 - Fraser, Alastair H.

Roberts

Ghosts on the Somme: Signed hardback book\nFilming the Battle, June-July 1916 by Alastair Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw & Steve Roberts. \nCondition is \""Like New\"". \nOutstanding reference book to a vital piece of film history\nThis important book fulfils a vital service by taking the 1916 documentary film `The Battle of the Somme' filmed on location by Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell , and placing it under the strictest and most exacting historical scrutiny.\nThe film was used for propaganda purposes, and was seen by a major proportion of the British public at the time. Its images have, for good or ill, become part of the collective memory of the Great War: the explosion of the massive mine at Hawthorn Ridge redoubt; the eyes of a soldier struggling to carry a wounded man along a trench, and the advance of troops through barbed wire feature in nearly every visual evocation of the Western Front. (The latter images are particularly controversial and the book surely closes the debatr