A Tommy's Life in the Trenches
A Soldier-Artist on the Western Front
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2016
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-5829-2 (ISBN)
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-5829-2 (ISBN)
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A unique visual perspective of life in the trenches on the Western Front from the forgotten soldier-artist and Somme veteran Private Fergus Mackain who served in France 1916-17.
An advertising illustrator and artist by trade, Private Fergus Mackain enlisted in 1915 to ‘do his bit’, serving in France when the fighting was at its fiercest. After being wounded on the Somme and taken out of front-line duty in 1917, he turned to designing humorous postcards for soldiers to send to their families at home. These colour postcards reflected in a light-hearted and ironic fashion the reality of life in the trenches for the ordinary Tommy. His ‘Sketches of Tommy’s Life in France’ and other cards are unique as they chronicle both his own life and the lives of all the ‘ordinary’ soldiers in that momentous struggle. Largely forgotten today, Mackain's sketches are a vital document of real life in the trenches, the joys of the rum ration, the cacophony of the artillery barrage or being stuck in a shell hole knee-deep in water. John Place, whose own grandfather fought on the Somme, and William Mackain-Bremner, grandson of Fergus's cousin, have collected together for the first time all the extant postcards drawn by Mackain and provide contextualising commentary for them. Also included are reproductions of actual messages sent during the war on the back of Mackain's postcards.
An advertising illustrator and artist by trade, Private Fergus Mackain enlisted in 1915 to ‘do his bit’, serving in France when the fighting was at its fiercest. After being wounded on the Somme and taken out of front-line duty in 1917, he turned to designing humorous postcards for soldiers to send to their families at home. These colour postcards reflected in a light-hearted and ironic fashion the reality of life in the trenches for the ordinary Tommy. His ‘Sketches of Tommy’s Life in France’ and other cards are unique as they chronicle both his own life and the lives of all the ‘ordinary’ soldiers in that momentous struggle. Largely forgotten today, Mackain's sketches are a vital document of real life in the trenches, the joys of the rum ration, the cacophony of the artillery barrage or being stuck in a shell hole knee-deep in water. John Place, whose own grandfather fought on the Somme, and William Mackain-Bremner, grandson of Fergus's cousin, have collected together for the first time all the extant postcards drawn by Mackain and provide contextualising commentary for them. Also included are reproductions of actual messages sent during the war on the back of Mackain's postcards.
Fergus Mackain was born in Canada to an English father & lived in New York with his young family working as an illustrator for an ad agency. Demobbed in 1918 he lived in England for several years before returning to his family. He died in 1924. William Mackain-Bremner lives in Texas & grew up in a British army family and was introduced to his relative's poignant illustrations from an early age. John Place is a teacher and lives in Oxford.
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.10.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 213 Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Chalford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 246 x 168 mm |
Gewicht | 438 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4456-5829-1 / 1445658291 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4456-5829-2 / 9781445658292 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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