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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> On the Home Front the debris of the Blitz was a tragic and sometimes surreal subject. Beaton was sent to document the RAF and he captured the heroism of the fighter and bomber pilots. The great shipyards and the energy of wartime production appealed to his sense of national purpose and offered dramatic graphic opportunities. Far from simply fulfilling a duty Beaton appeared to be energised by the mission. He found the most unlikely situations rich in photographic potential none more so than the wreckage of war he witnessed in the North African landscape. When he reached India in 1943 from where he was to set out for Burma he was in fact visiting the jewel of the empire in the final years of the Raj. Beaton’s war travels ended in China where he witnessed the stirrings of a vast nation on the cusp of transformation. The photographs constitute an elegant document of the machinery of war the generals and their troops the princes and their tribal followers the wounded and the workers. From these extraordinary photographs coupled with extracts from Beaton’s diaries of the time. you sense that the maps of far continents are about to be re-drawn. Behind the fa?ade of his style and elegance. Beaton was creating an incomparable document of the passing of an age (OS)