Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines by Miller, Martin

Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines

The twentieth century was both the brightest period in the evolutionary journey of humankind and the darkest....
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Author: Martin Miller
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Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines by Miller, Martin

Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines

$118.93

Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines

$118.93
Author: Martin Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The twentieth century was both the brightest period in the evolutionary journey of humankind and the darkest. Heir to four centuries of discovering what the mind can do, humanity used that growing awareness to virtually end the timeless cycles of famine and epidemics of disease, to invent and mass produce countless labor and lifesaving technologies, and to discover nature's most intimate secrets. These are magnificent accomplishments. And yet, these same miraculous gifts were placed in the service of chauvinistic ambitions that twice plunged the world into paroxysms of death and destruction on unprecedented scales. This is the great enigma of human existence, its agony and its ecstasy.

Triumph and Tragedy traces the course of the scientific, industrial, and cultural revolutions that set the stage for humanity's deadliest century. It describes the political movements that sponsored the development of a new generation of weapons enabled by the newly available technologies and how governments mobilized their populations to fight a new kind of war, one dominated by machines. Rare historical photographs bring the story to life and give the personalities a human face. The weapons themselves are shown in brooding, high-resolution detail in a gallery chapter with over a hundred of the author's award-winning photographs, serving as reminder and metaphor of our brilliance and folly.



Author: Martin Miller
Publisher: Chelsea Press
Published: 11/01/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780986212727


Review Citation(s):
PW Booklife Reviews 10/04/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021

About the Author
Miller, Martin: -

Martin Miller has been doing high-resolution photography since 1970, first with 4x5 and 8x10 view cameras then, more recently, with digital cameras in a technique called stitched mosaics. In 2003 he retired from a 31-year career as a research physicist with the US Army Research Laboratory to devote full time to his photography. In 2006 his oeuvre shifted from nature abstracts first to the heavy implements of war and then to weapons of mass destruction, including a major multiyear substudy of the production facilities of the Manhattan project. His photographic work has received international recognition and is currently represented by Galerie Gora in Montreal and Galerie Sakura in Paris.

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