Second World War British military camouflage : designing deception
Forsyth, Isla2018
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'Second World War British Military Camouflage' offers an original approach to the cultures and geographies of military conflict, through a study of the history of camouflage. Isla Forsyth narrates the scientific biography of Dr Hugh Cott (1900-1987), eminent zoologist and artist turned camoufleur, and entwines this with the lives of other camouflage practitioners, to trace the sites of camouflage's developments. Moving through the scientists' fieldsite, the committee boardroom, the military training site and the soldiers' battlefield, this book uncovers the history of this ambiguous military invention, and subverts a long-dominant narrative of camouflage as solely a protective technology.
Main title:
Author:
Forsyth, Isla, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781350086647 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
623.770941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
87395