At the moment I’m reading Nella Last’s War, the World War Two diaries of Housewife 49 – so I’m steeped in air raids, Morrison shelters and rationing. So I’ve been finding a recent book purchase fascinating, it’s a book of photographs from that era.
It’s called The War in Pictures and was published by Odhams Press. This is the first one in a series of six books that were published – one for each year of World War Two. The photographs were taken from everywhere that was affected by war and they’re really interesting.
The black and white photographs all have descriptions of what was going on in them alongside, and the beginning of the book explains how the war started in the first place.
It has a stylish embossed cover of a tank, clouds and aeroplane and also lovely endpapers, and it’s in great condition. It cost me all of £1, but now of course I’ll be looking for the other five!
I have a couple of sets of similar books about World War One, but this is the first time I’ve come across anything like this from World War Two.
What a find! Yes, that is exactly the sort of book I snatch up at book sales. I have one of Robert Capo’s (Cato’s?)WWII photographs. He was a top U.S. photographer in the war, getting to places that many could not get to or did not want to. I also have a huge volume of loads of other photos compiled by??? I don’t recall–Must go dig it up from the HUGE BOOK pile. How lucky you were to pick this up!
Judith,
I believe it’s Robert Capa. I’m sure he went to Russia with Steinbeck in the 1960s, a great photographer. I find these sorts of books fascinating.
Katrina,
You’re so right–Robert Capa! I’ve got to dig out the book soon. With John Steinbeck to Russia–do you know when that was, by chance?
Judith,
Steinbeck’s A Russian Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Russian_Journal was published in 1948. I’ve read it and I had remembered it as being the early 1960s, you should read it if possible.