A Danger Shared: A Journalist's Glimpses of a Continent at War

by Bill Lascher, Melville Jacoby (photographer), Paul French (Foreword)

A Danger A Journalist's Glimpses of a Continent at War provides a searing visual history of wartime Asia as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collection of never-before-seen images, readers experience glamorous Macau soirées, visit Guangxi farms, and witness wartime Chongqing's wreckage and resilience. Along the way, Jacoby treats Filipino fishermen and Hanoi flower-sellers with the same care as the Soong Sisters, Chiang Kai-Shek, and other icons. Through scenes of everyday friendship, toil, and commerce alongside bombed classrooms, anxious refugees, and exhausted soldiers, A Danger Shared documents humanity's persistence at a cataclysmic historical moment.

Genres: China

276 pages, Hardcover

Published April 8, 2024

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mean, one would hope I'd like it, right?

But it really did come out even better than I'd hoped while writing the text and curating Melville Jacoby's photography.