The Second World War in Colour
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Rating | : | 4.96 (550 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1904897428 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-08-23 |
Language | : | English |
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. Ian Carter is senior curator of photographs of the Imperial War Museums’ Photo Archive
. About the AuthorIan Carter is senior curator of photographs of the Imperial War Museums’ Photo Archive
The result is a World War II that has been rescued from the past and restored to us, powerful and unforgettable, so we can see for the first time what our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents saw as they fought and sacrificed all those decades ago.. Reproducing seventy-eight rare full-color images from the archives of the Imperial War Museums, it shows us a new—or at least long-forgotten—World War II. Images of the Blitz, of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the fall of Berlin—all come to us in shadowy grays and blacks, the lack of color simul