Title

''La pression Croissante de Foch; les ruines de la collegiale de Saint-Quentin degagee..., 1918. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

''La pression Croissante de Foch; les ruines de la collegiale de Saint-Quentin degagee par la destruction des immeubles en bordure de la rue Saint-Andre, qui l'enserraient etroitement; au premier plan, le socle du monument commemoratif du siege de 1557 prive par l'ennemi des statues qu'il supportait', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].

Date

1918

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_050

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (1,8Mb) / 20,1in x 9,2in / 6035 x 2753 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe destruction country French France color conflict ruins ruin military war front location debris rubble century photograph first world war wartime concept ruined picardy photo offensive B&W aftermath publication Colour World War I WWI black & white black and white B W white and black World War One 20th century The Print Collector 1st World War St Quentin TGN Western Front WW1 photograph Unknown débris L'Illustration shell damage Hundred Days Offensive