Title

'Ce qui fut Lens; Des rails tordus pres de l'emplacement ou elevait la gare; en entrant..., 1918. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

''Ce qui fut Lens; Des rails tordus pres de l'emplacement ou elevait la gare; en entrant a Lens, le 2 octobre 1918, les Anglais ne purent y retrouver la trace meme du soubassement d'une maison', 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_054

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (2,6Mb) / 19,5in x 9,5in / 5835 x 2844 (300dpi)

Keywords

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