A Visual History
By Anthony Richards
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 9781912423040
Hardback 232 Pages
RRP: £25
THIS SUMPTUOUSLY illustrated book is drawn from the mighty collections at the Imperial War Museum and proves a striking addition to the growing canon of works marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Among its 230-plus pages are the most stirring, gritty and illuminating images of the men, objects, documents, art and even life on the home front ever seen – all are dynamic representations of the events of June 6, 1944 and the days leading up to it.
Readers must prepare themselves for an evocative experience. The photographs, so beautifully curated, have the power to transport us back to a moment in time when the actions of so many men, often only in their teens, led to the liberation of Europe.
There are ten articulate and engrossing chapters written by the head of Documents and Sound at the IWM – Anthony Richards. The structure of its content (overseen by David Tibbs and Ian Carter) has been elegantly designed by Kirsty Macdiarmid, who selected the photographs that tell such a serious story.
Readers will be led into the Normandy invasion from the time the Allies first …
