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"An alternative approach to military history, richer on mood than historical detail, this will appeal to military history enthusiasts, landscape photography buffs, and some readers considering future travels." -Library Journal (Oktober 2009)



"This striking book marries pithy descriptions of key European battles throughout history with lush contemporary panoramic photographs of the sites of those conflicts. The battlescapes-from Hastings to Austerlitz, Waterloo to Hurtgen Forest-beckon readers to step into the frame and imagine themselves in the battle's midst, the eerily serene scenes transformed by war." -Military History Quarterly



"Looking at Buellesbach`s epic panoramics, it`s hard to imagine how these landscapes were ever host to such carnage. But surely that`s the whole point. Battlescape is a beautifully simple idea and a timely reminder." -Practical Photography



"Viewing the panoramic landscape photos of battle sites like Murten (1476), Vienna (1683), Austerlitz (1805), and Waterloo (1815) it’s difficult to fathom how such hauntingly beautiful places were once the scene of bloody, vicious conflicts." - Jason Zasky, Failure Magazine



"Alfred Buellesbach and Marcus Cowper's Battlescapes: A Photographic Testament to 2,000 Year of Conflict will reach into general-interest as well as military libraries, gathering over 200 images of major world battlefields taken by a leading landscape photographer and presented in an oversized collection of panoramas. More than just a photo album, though, the accompanying history of battles and events is invaluable." -The Bookwatch (Januar 2010)



"These photographs are of the battlefields as they are today and brought to us with superlative images that cover nearly two feet from one side of the page to the other. In amongst the images of the battlefield are those of the memorials and cemeteries that dot the landscape; especially in the battles of the last century. ... It is an outstanding book on how these places are today and one that I can easily recommend to you." -Scott Van Aken, Modeling Madness / modelingmadness.com (Februar 2010)



"The basic, straightforward nature of these contemporary landscapes lend to the viewer’s impulse to imagine the horrors that once took place on these grounds. ... These beautiful, untouched landscapes were at one point blood stained and littered with bodies. The contrast of the present beauty with previous ugliness makes for an interesting allusion to the overall cycles of history." - Tara Sellios, Boston Photography Focus (Januar 2010)



"One of Alfred Buellesbach's uncles was a German soldier who perished on the Somme in 1918. That personal link to the bloody history of European warfare inspired the German photographer (with British author Marcus Cowper) to produce this beautiful book of haunting contemporary pictures of old battle sites from Agincourt to Vimy to the Normandy landing. Once-blood-soaked ground now consists of grain fields and quiet beaches, with occasional gravesites and memorials jarring the memory." - theglobeandmail.com



"I was intrigued by the “Battlescapes” article in the Aug/Sept issue, particularly by the photograph of the bucolic scene where the Battle of the Somme had taken place. My uncle, for whom I was named, lost his life in such an area while serving in the British army in the Great War. The American poet Carl Sandburg has captured the healing effect of nature on battle-scarred locations in his poem “Grass.”
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
Your photographs certainly bear out the wisdom of Sandburg’s words." -historynet.com, Letter to the editor by Arthur Wilson, Amity, Pa.




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