The Great War

I have never seen or read anything that brings the First World War quite so vividly alive.

Mark Haddon, Guardian

Does [it] count as a book of the year? It's certainly my meticulously illustrated panorama of the year.

Craig Taylor, Observer

Monumental.

Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph Seven

Sampling this later photographic narrative, published ahead of next year's First World War centenary, left this reader feeling like Tommy Atkins after one of the Great Wa'’s artillery barrages: shell-shocked.

Sean O'Grady, Independent

A spectacular pictorial history.

Fanny Blake, Woman & Home

More than 500 pictures follow the conflict on multiple fronts.

Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler

This is rich, riveting and often appalling visual history.

New York Times

Showing the changing nature of photography, it also shows the extreme depth of the human loss incurred.

What Digital Camera

This has an astonishing photo on the cover... And there’s no let-up in quality inside. Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts – she is the Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum – have done a terrific job of putting together the most arresting images of the war.

John Preston, Daily Mail

[A] handsomely produced volume... Unforgettable pictures.

Word of Interiors

Superb

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe Sunday

Wonderful… Some of the shots will be well known to you, but most will not and, as a collection, portray an image of just what those seemingly well-laid-out lines meant for those who fought there.

Countrylife Online