Tag: Ypres
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Ypres after the First Bombardment, with footnotes
Nevinson depicts a desolate scene of the smoking, burning carcass of the Belgian city of Ypres after it was first bombed in 1914. Nevinson would have witnessed the scarred remains of the city while enlisted with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit as a driver on the Western Front. The skeleton of the once magnificent city, with…