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Lee Miller's war : beyond D-Day / Lee Miller

By: Miller, LeeContributor(s): Miller, LeeMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014Description: 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780500291542Subject(s): History | History of Europe | Miller, Lee, -- 1907-1977 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography | War correspondents -- United States -- Biography | Photographers | Military campaigns | War correspondents | Western Front (World War (1939-1945)) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage -- United StatesDDC classification: 940.5481 MIL

Contents:

Foreword / David E. Scherman -- Unarmed Warriors -- The Siege of St Mayo -- Letter to Audrey Withers -- Paris, Its Joy ... Its Spirit ... Its Privations -- Letter to Miss Crockett -- How the Germans Surrender -- Letter to Audrey Withers -- Players in Paris -- Paris Under Snow -- Colette -- Letter to Audrey Withers -- Pattern of Liberation -- Weather for War -- Through the Alsace Campaign -- Strasbourg Sculptures -- Russian/American Link at Torgau -- Letter to Audrey Withers -- Germany, The War That is Won -- Letter to Audrey Withers -- Hitleriana -- Afterword / Antony Penrose -- Editor's Notes -- Index.

Summary: Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 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 war's horror is relieved by the spirit of post-liberation Paris, where she indulged in frivolous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard, Aragon and Colette. The book ends with Miller's first-on-the-scene report giving a sardonic description of Hitler's 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 Miller's assignments, contributes a foreword

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Foreword / David E. Scherman --
Unarmed Warriors --
The Siege of St Mayo --
Letter to Audrey Withers --
Paris, Its Joy ... Its Spirit ... Its Privations --
Letter to Miss Crockett --
How the Germans Surrender --
Letter to Audrey Withers --
Players in Paris --
Paris Under Snow --
Colette --
Letter to Audrey Withers --
Pattern of Liberation --
Weather for War --
Through the Alsace Campaign --
Strasbourg Sculptures --
Russian/American Link at Torgau --
Letter to Audrey Withers --
Germany, The War That is Won --
Letter to Audrey Withers --
Hitleriana --
Afterword / Antony Penrose --
Editor's Notes --
Index.

Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 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 war's horror is relieved by the spirit of post-liberation Paris, where she indulged in frivolous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard, Aragon and Colette. The book ends with Miller's first-on-the-scene report giving a sardonic description of Hitler's 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 Miller's assignments, contributes a foreword

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