WORLD WAR I - HISE, W. Donald.

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"Ten Years After". An album, signed twice by the editor and photographer W. Donald Hise on the introductory leaf, pairing photographs of 100 battlefield scenes of 1918 with the same locations in 1928, commemorating a decade since the end of the war.Hise, of Salem, Ohio, "went to France with the A.E.F. and when the American Army gave up its private battle with the franc he stayed on. For nine years he has been taking before-and-after pictures of the battlefields" (Brooklyn Daily Times, 5 April 1929). In his introduction, he writes "This albumn [sic] has been edited and issued with two ideas predominating: one, to present a comprehensive photographic survey of the battle fields of France and Belgium in their devastated state of 1918; two, to visualize the stupendous reconstruction work accomplished Ten Years After in these same regions. In making the present day photographs special care was taken by the editor to find the exact location of the war scene." "These two hundred photographs cover principally the battle fields where the American Expeditionary Forces fought, such as the Marne, Oiuse-Aisne, St. Mihiel, Flanders Fields, the Somme and the Argonne. But others include some French and British sectors where American soldiers were in training or on detached service. They are shown in sequence of battles from town to town as our men advanced and therefore constitute a complete sketch of the American effort concurrently with the French restoration ten years later."The contrasti

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