The Russian War: 1941-1945

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RUSSIAN WAR I94I-I94S
EDITED BY
DANIELA MRÁZKOVÁ VLADIMÍR REMES INTRODUCTION BY HARRISON SALISBURY
"The collection of Soviet photographs that this book presents has stunned and inspired me. It has no parallel. This is not a record of war from on high as seen by the commanders of the time and by historians later. It is the record ofa people at war and of their experiences."
-A. J.R TAYLOR
From the time of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 until the Soviet armies marched into Berlin in 1945, six million Russian soldiers were killed and 14 million soldiers and civilians were murdered by the Germans. In the West we forget that for most of the war, Soviet armies fought against nine-tenths of the German army, and never against less than three-quarters of it. Throughout this war a brave band of Soviet photographers recorded the events from the field of action—often alternating camera for gun.
This extraordinary book of photographs for the first time allows us to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

RUSSIAN WAR I94I-I94S
EDITED BY
DANIELA MRÁZKOVÁ VLADIMÍR REMES INTRODUCTION BY HARRISON SALISBURY
"The collection of Soviet photographs that this book presents has stunned and inspired me. It has no parallel. This is not a record of war from on high as seen by the commanders of the time and by historians later. It is the record ofa people at war and of their experiences."
-A. J.R TAYLOR
From the time of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 until the Soviet armies marched into Berlin in 1945, six million Russian soldiers were killed and 14 million soldiers and civilians were murdered by the Germans. In the West we forget that for most of the war, Soviet armies fought against nine-tenths of the German army, and never against less than three-quarters of it. Throughout this war a brave band of Soviet photographers recorded the events from the field of action—often alternating camera for gun.
This extraordinary book of photographs for the first time allows us to understand the Russian side of World War II, a war where as one Soviet photographer remarked, "Death was more common than a slice of bread." These photographs have been arranged to document history that began with the Nazi assault along a 1200-mile Russian front and ended four years later when the Red Flag was raised over the Reichstag. The editors, Daniela Mrázková and Vladimir Remes, made their selection of pictures not only by combing through Soviet archives, but by making personal contact with
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most of the photographers represented in this collection—all of whom, amazingly, survived the war—and asking each to select favorite pictures. Captions reveal the date and place of each picture, and biographical sketches are presented to introduce these important but unknown photographers whose work deserves coniparison with the best images of such celebrated Western war photographers as Robert Capa, Henh Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstadt and David Douglas Duncan. More than outstanding photojournalism, these images are frequently works of art, and in all cases they underscore the human side of war
DANELA MRÁZKOVÁ has been on the staff of the magazine Fotografía since 1963, and has served as editor-in-chief since 1971.
VLADIMIR REMES has been a cultural journalist, television and film critic and documentary screenwriter Vissza