World War II: A Complete Photographic History

by Hal Buell

World War II The Complete Chronicle of the World's Greatest Conflict

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

752 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Hal Buell was head of the Photography Service (photography director) at the Associated Press. He was also the author of Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs and Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue, a book about war photographer Joe Rosenthal. He was 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!

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

A detailed day-by-day history of World War II, accompanied by thousands of photos of the war. I wouldn't recommend it to the casual reader as the daily accounts are quite dry and written in a very factual manner, but WW2 afficionados would find it interesting to plot all of the war's events on a strict chronological timeline. Reading through the sequence of events does make one realise the scale of the war, its geographical expanse, and how difficult and time-consuming it was for the Allies to achieve victory.

[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

[KeeOfTheArchives · Rating 5 out of 5]

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