World War II: A Complete Photographic History

by Hal Buell

Extraordinary work presents more than 2500 photographs and maps accompanying a day-by-day chronicle of the war on all fronts. Together they provide a comprehensive and remarkable view of the momentous era, from the first German tanks rolling across the Polish border in September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in September of 1945. Size 9x12.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Photography, Military Fiction, World War II, War, Reference

752 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Hal Buell is the former head of the Photography Service (photography director) at the Associated Press. He is also the author of Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs and Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue, a book about war photographer Joe Rosenthal. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Buell

Reviews

[CD · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have coffee table book for any military, history, 20th century, journalism, and or photography reader/collector.

The chronology of the war as illustrated by the photographic record makes an absolutely astounding presentation. I had to resort to limit myself to either a fixed number of pages to look at during one sitting, or a week or a month of 'time' in the chronology. Else I was staying up very late with this book.

I've been through it a number of times and if it has any real weakness it is the obscurity of some of the information without additional context or reference. Some of the photographs don't easily match up with descriptions or chronological snippets.

Worth the time and investment, both monetary and the amount of space that is needed to keep and look at this immense volume!

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hal Buell one of our times' preeminent combat photographers outdid all in a 2,500 image world wide panorama of WW2, through meticulous archival research. Access to former Soviet archives and private collections page after page show vivid reality of a world at war. Most I had never seen. It is balanced, showing the struggles of many soldiers and suffering of civilians on a vast scale.

[Sleepy Boy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a very good photo study of WWII if one ignores the captions. Sadly the book goes from 4 to 3 stars for me for many many captions being wrong and many more being too light on information. Some photos are used more than once as well.

[Cws]

WWII-Bud a Complete photographic history -awesome

[keereads · Rating 5 out of 5]

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