Blood and champagne : the life and times of Robert Capa / by Alex Kershaw. Life and times of Robert Capa

Collection type	Library
Author	Kershaw, Alex.; Capa, Robert, 1913-1954.;
Call Number	PFS
Document type	Monograph
Year	2002.
Pagination	xix, 298, [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Macmillan,
Note	Includes bibliographical references and index. "Blood and Champagne is an account of Capa's life and times: a vivid journey that takes the reader from fascist Budapest via Nazi Berlin to the cauldrons of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War and finally to the fall of Dien Bien Phu in FrenchIndo-China. Based on extensive interviews with Capa's friends and contemporaries, as well as FBI and secret Soviet files and other previously unpublished materials, Alex Kershaw's biography is every bit as compelling and affecting as its charismatic subje ct."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	London :

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: 1 Conversation in Budapest, 5 -- 2 Barbarians at the Gate, S -- 3 The Man Who Invented Himself, 22 -- 4 The Passionate War, 33 -- 5 'The Falling Soldier', 38 -- 6 'La Paquena Rubena', 48 -- 7 'The 400 Million', 66 -- 8 The Final Defeat, 73 -- 9 Splendid Isolation, 82 -- 10 Muddling Through, 90 -- 11 The Desert, 98 -- 12 It's a Tough War, 107 -- 13 The Longest Day, 116 -- 14 The Bocage, 132 -- 15 Victory, 44 -- 16 'Here's Looking At You, Kid', 158 -- 17 The End of the Affai r, 167 -- 18 Back in the USSR, 177 -- 19 The New Look, 192 -- 20 A Road of Death, 200 -- 21 The Realm of the Senses, 214 -- 22 How Can I Be Old?, 225 -- 23 Forward Lies the Delta, 241.