Peter Barton (historian)

Peter Barton (historian)

Peter Arthur Barton (born March 28, 1955) is a First World War historian and author. His body of research includes finding hundreds of previously unseen panoramas, mass graves of soldiers and tunnel excavations. Mr. Barton’s research produced a panoramic collection that allows readers to view the battlefields from the Belgian coast and to the end of the British lines at the Somme.Fact|date=September 2007

Having completed a revised edition of Battlefields of the First World War to be released in October 2008 he is currently working on a book on The Battle of Arras (Apr/May 1917) with his colleague, Jeremy Banning, and together they are involved in many archaeological projects on the western front. He is Secretary to the All Party Parliamentary War Graves And Battlefields Heritage Group. The Group consists of Members from both Houses and exists to support the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, to further educational programmes aimed at increasing knowledge of war heritage and battlefield sites, to support campaigners seeking to conserve and promote heritage sites, and to encourage best practice in multi-disciplinary battlefield archaeology.

Works

*"Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-1918"
*"The Battlefields of the First World War"
*"The Somme - a new panoramic perspective
*"Passchendaele - Unseen Panoramas of the Third Battle of Ypres"


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