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Remembering the Battle that Won the War - 70 Years Later
Life
May 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
144 pages
ISBN: 1618931024
EAN: 9781618931023
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
Probably the most famous combat photographs ever made were
those taken on the beach in Normandy during the D-Day
invasions by Robert Capa, shooting for LIFE and going in
with the first wave. The saga of those images has been told
before and will be again in this commemorative book: How
Capa got out alive (he would later be killed while covering
war in Southeast Asia), how he got his film back to London
for transfer to New York, how most of his images were ruined
and the 11 frames that survived had taken on a grainy
quality that seemed to reflect the shaking beach under
German bombardment, and even how Steven Spielberg used that
look to inform the first half-hour of his classic film
Saving Private Ryan. Armed with two cameras, LIFE's Capa
volunteered to hit the French coast, code-named Omaha Beach,
with the first wave of 1st Division soldiers, and later
remembered (in the kind of first-hand testimony that will
fill this book) bullets tearing "holes in the water around
him," and then what he saw as an idyllic shoreline becoming
"the ugliest beach in the world." Henry Luce, looking back, said LIFE had not been born as a
war magazine in 1936, but that world events made it one-it
was necessary for the people at home to see what was really
happening over there. By the time 1.5 million American
servicemen and women were squeezing into Southern England in
advance of 1944's Operation Overlord invasions, a sizable
battalion of LIFE photographers was among them. If Capa's
pictures became the most famous, there were so many others
by Landry, Morse, Silk and more. America looked to LIFE to
tell the story 70 years ago, and will do so again in this book.
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