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Howitzer pounding the German lines
Howitzer pounding the German lines
In his famous poem about life and death on the Western Front, 'Anthem For Doomed Youth', Wilfred Owen writes about "the monstrous anger of the gun". This photograph reveals what Owen was trying to convey. With a gun crew of twelve men required to feed shells into this howitzer, the gun does look like some sort of mechanical monster. The dust-storm on the ground is probably caused by the sudden mov…
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Artillery (Troops)
- Dust
- Howitzers
- Shooting
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Artillery (Troops)
- Dust
- Howitzers
- Shooting
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
Identifier
- 74548082
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
- 2014-04-06T13:22:37.541Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:46:06.170Z