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View of Blangy which we took from the Boche
View of Blangy which we took from the Boche
This lifeless scene is believed to be the work of the official war photographer, John Warwick Brooke. The utter destruction of this once inhabited place, goes some way to illustrating and explaining why so many soldiers returned from their war experience changed men. Blangy was part of a line which ran from L'Abbe Woods to the village of Getelles. The derogatory term for a German, 'Boche’, orig…
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Germany. Heer
- French
- Views (visual works)
- Villages
- War damage
- Frenchcore
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Germany. Heer
- French
- Views (visual works)
- Villages
- War damage
- Frenchcore
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Places
- Europe, France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Saint-Laurent-Blangy (inhabited place)
Identifier
- 74548282
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:52.147Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:55.403Z