About
Great War Photos is a new website by military historian and author Paul Reed.
Born in the 1960s, Paul Reed is a leading military historian specialising in the First and Second World Wars. He is the author of seven books, including the best-selling Walking The Somme (Pen & Sword 1997, republished 2011) and Great War Lives (Pen & Sword 2010) and the upcoming Walking D Day (Pen & Sword 2012). Paul also works as an Historical Consultant and Contributor for Television; most recently he was consultant on Michael Palin’s Last Day of WW1, series consultant for BBC1′s My Family At War and historical consultant for BBC2′s Dan Snow’s Little Ships and BBC1′s Dig1940. In 2011 he worked on Dig WW2 with Dan Snow and in 2012 was leading historian on Channel 5′s WW1 Tunels of Death: Messines, The Big Dig. He is currently working on projects for the WW1 Centenary during 2014-18.
Paul Reed can be contacted on: ww1centenary@gmail.com
My principal Great War websites are:
- Old Front Line – Battlefields of WW1: www.battlefields1418.com
- WW1 Centenary website: www.ww1centenary.net
- Somme Battlefields Centenary Website: www.somme1916.com
Yet another interesting historical website from Paul, I wish I had half the energy of this leading historian. I hope there are many more sites to come!
31/01/2012 at 11:34
Hi Paul,
I have a number of photographs that my grandfather took when posted to Egypt in the between (I think) 1915 and 1918. He was in the AOC, and think based in Alexandria, and perhaps the Command Depot at Abbassia. I wonder if you would like them for your website, I can email them? With no family to leave them to I would hate for them to disappear, there are some great ones of camp life. Thanks, Clare.
11/02/2012 at 17:51
Hi – sounds interesting. You can email me on ww1research@hotmail.com if you wish.
Paul
11/02/2012 at 19:05
Hi Paul
I just wanted to write a quick post to say what a truely superb web site you have created here for the centenary of the First World War! They say pictures paint a thousand words and that could not be more true for this brilliant archive! Thank you for sharing the photos and information and I will certainly visiting this site every week as well as encouraging others to do so too!
Mark Simner
Administrator
Napoleonic Wars Forum
Victorian Wars Forum
13/02/2012 at 16:40
Hi Paul, there appears to be a problem with the aerial photo you posted, the photo and
text are missing mate…
regards
Tom
07/05/2012 at 07:09
It was an error from yesterday; should be sorted today with a new post!
07/05/2012 at 12:11