Book | The Great War Seen from the Air

The Great War Seen from the Air. In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918. By Birger Stichelbaut and Piet Chielens
The Great War Seen from the Air. In Flanders Fields, 1914–1918. By Birger Stichelbaut and Piet Chielens

(2014)

The Great War Seen from the Air – Stichelbaut, Birger; Chielens, Piet – Yale University Press.

This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents, and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before.

Birger Stichelbaut is a postdoctoral researcher based in the department of archaeology, Ghent University, Belgium. Piet Chielens is coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.

Review by Cobra TV (in Dutch) + edition in Dutch De Oorlog vanuit de Lucht. 1914-1918. Het Front in België