This Is War!
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with wear and tear. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Intact.
Few photographic documents have seared themselves into the public consciousness as powerfully as This is War! — David Douglas Duncan's unsparing portrait of American soldiers fighting in the Korean War. Armed with a camera instead of a rifle, Duncan embedded himself with U.S. Marines during the brutal 1950 campaign, capturing not the glory of battle but its grinding, terrifying, deeply human reality. His images chronicle exhausted men in frozen foxholes, the haunted stares of the wounded, and the raw bonds forged under fire — a visual testimony that strips war of all its mythology. Duncan, a decorated combat photographer and former Marine himself, brought an insider's eye and an artist's soul to the front lines. His work in This is War! argues, without a single word of narration, that the true cost of war is measured not in territory gained but in the faces of those who fight it. Praised by the Saturday Review as superlative… an epic of battle in pictures, the book stands as one of the landmark achievements in photojournalism and a document that continues to challenge every comfortable notion of what it means to send men to war.
Author: David Douglas Duncan
Format: Paperback
Published: 1967, Bantam (Gallery Edition)
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with wear and tear. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Intact.
Few photographic documents have seared themselves into the public consciousness as powerfully as This is War! — David Douglas Duncan's unsparing portrait of American soldiers fighting in the Korean War. Armed with a camera instead of a rifle, Duncan embedded himself with U.S. Marines during the brutal 1950 campaign, capturing not the glory of battle but its grinding, terrifying, deeply human reality. His images chronicle exhausted men in frozen foxholes, the haunted stares of the wounded, and the raw bonds forged under fire — a visual testimony that strips war of all its mythology. Duncan, a decorated combat photographer and former Marine himself, brought an insider's eye and an artist's soul to the front lines. His work in This is War! argues, without a single word of narration, that the true cost of war is measured not in territory gained but in the faces of those who fight it. Praised by the Saturday Review as superlative… an epic of battle in pictures, the book stands as one of the landmark achievements in photojournalism and a document that continues to challenge every comfortable notion of what it means to send men to war.