LEE MILLER'S WAR: BEYOND D-DAY
Foreword by David E. Scherman
Autore: A cura di Anthony Penrose
Codice: 219002
Lee Millers work for Vogue from 19411945 sets her apart as a photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, and its full range is shown here, accompanied by her brilliant despatches. Starting with her first report from a field hospital soon after D-Day, the despatches and nearly 160 photographs show war-ravaged cities, buildings and landscapes, but above all they portray the war-resilient people soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains and the heroes. There is the raw edge of combat portrayed at the siege of St Malo and in the bitterly fought Alsace campaign, and the disbelief and outrage Miller describes on witnessing the victims of Dachau. The wars horror is relieved by the spirit of post-liberation Paris, where she inudulged in frivoluous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard, Aragon and Colette. The book ends with Millers first-on-the-scene report giving a sardonic description of HItlers abandoned house in Munich, and the looting and burning of his alpine fortress at Berchtesgaden, which marked a symbolic end to the war. David E. Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of Millers assignments, contributes a foreword.
Table of Contents
Foreword by David E. Scherman
Unarmed Warriors
The Siege of St Malo
Paris, Its JoyIts SpiritIts Privations
How the Germans Surrender
Players in Paris
Paris Under Snow
Colette
Pattern of Liberation
Through the Alsace Campaign
Russian/American Link at Torgau
Germany, The War that is Won
Hitlerana
Afterword by Antony Penrose
Editors Notes
Index
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159 foto in bianco e nero
208
18,5 x 24