This rich companion volume to Cecil Beaton's Chinese Diary and Album brings alive the experience of India and Burma during the Second World War. With words and images, he lets us see, hear, smell, almost touch the dusty Burmese countryside, the shimmering, casual magnificence of a Bombay virtually untouched by war, or the rain-sodden, flea-bitten front lines. Beaton was an acute observer of people, too, and he offers revealing glimpses of central wartime figures. There is even mordant social comedy that rivals (and ...
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This rich companion volume to Cecil Beaton's Chinese Diary and Album brings alive the experience of India and Burma during the Second World War. With words and images, he lets us see, hear, smell, almost touch the dusty Burmese countryside, the shimmering, casual magnificence of a Bombay virtually untouched by war, or the rain-sodden, flea-bitten front lines. Beaton was an acute observer of people, too, and he offers revealing glimpses of central wartime figures. There is even mordant social comedy that rivals (and explains much of) The Jewel in the Crown . This lavishly illustrated book provides an unforgettable look at a continent in flames.
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