The First World War A-Z by Imperial War Museum

Author:Imperial War Museum
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782816713
Publisher: G2 Rights Ltd

MAPS

In an era long before GPS, the role of maps and mapping was crucial to military conduct, from logistics to battle-planning. Millions of military maps, as well as commercial maps about the war for press, propaganda and educational use, were produced between 1914 and 1918. As the war’s weapons became more advanced so did the mapping techniques. The development of aerial photography placed a premium on controlling the skies, because maps from those photographs could help determine artillery targets and infantry tactics. Specialist cartographers were sent to the front lines to help develop new techniques. Among their tasks was constant surveying in order to map every detail of relevant areas and plot the trenches, guns and batteries of both sides. Lawrence Bragg, who did so much to advance the technique of sound-ranging to locate enemy guns, worked for the much expanded Maps GHQ on the Western Front; and T E Lawrence was mapping the Middle East before he found fame in other ways. The diverse maps of the war tell their own fascinating stories and sub-stories of the conflict: the path of an air raid, the density of graves in a small corner of the Somme, the enemy’s order of battle, the snaking tendrils of trenchlines or a web of rail lines, or the loud pictorial maps for propaganda that depicted the enemy as national stereotypes or even animals.

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