Book description
'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer
The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the…
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1 author picked The World Aflame as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Colorized images are often controversial, and I never much liked them, but Marina Amaral’s amazing work changed my mind. She is a master at thoughtful and surprisingly natural-looking colorizing and it’s amazing to me how our brains are so used to processing historical photos in black and white, as if the world really was colorless. The photos in this book, accompanied by the text by Dan Jones allow you to pick it up open to a random page, look and read and put it back down having learned something and viewed a scene you thought you know in a new…
From C.F.'s list on photo books that tell stories of World War II.
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