There Once Was a War - The Collected Colour Photography of World War II

Complemented by a text by General Chuck Yeager and Colonel Bud Anderson, a unique collection of more than two hundred stirring full-colour photographs, taken for the most part by amateur lensmen, depicts the soldiers, airmen, sailors, and the home front of history's greatest war. The most important historical event of the 20th century was a war that seemed to be fought in black-and-white. Our collective memory of the years 1939-1945 exists in monochrome, because that is the way most of us saw it - and continue to see it - in the films and still pictures of the day. Colour film for motion pictures and still cameras was readily available then, but it was not in wide use because of its fragility and the difficulties of developing it. But there were enough hardy photographic pioneers around in the 1940s to take the new colour film to war, and their pictures, surviving beautifully to this day, show us a very different world than the one we are accustomed to seeing. This volume features the Jeffrey Ethell Collection of WW2 Colour Photography.....