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A Danger Shared

A Journalist's Glimpses of Continent at War
  • ISBN-13: 9789887963998
  • Publisher: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
    Imprint: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
  • By Bill Lascher, Photographs by Melville Jacoby, Foreword by Paul French
  • Price: AUD $126.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 26/09/2024
  • Format: Hardback (285.00mm X 260.00mm) 276 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photographic reportage [AJCR]
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A Danger Shared provides a searing visual history of Asia during World War II as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collection of never-before-seen images, readers experience glamorous Macau soirees, visit Guangxi farms, and witness wartime Chongqings wreckage and resilience. Along the way, Jacoby treats Filipino fishermen and Hanoi flower-sellers with the same care as the Soong sisters, Chiang Kai-Shek, and other icons. Through scenes of everyday friendship, toil, and commerce alongside bombed classrooms, anxious refugees, and exhausted soldiers, A Danger Shared documents humanitys persistence at a cataclysmic historical moment.

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1. Around the World to Guangzhou; Chapter 2. The Eve of War; Chapter 3. Shanghai: Cosmopolis Under the Gun; Chapter 4. Chungking, You Get to Like It; Chapter 5. 1940: Chinas Crucial Year; Chapter 6. The Press Hostel; Chapter 7. A City Aflame ; Chapter 8. A Widening War: French Indochina in 1940; Chapter 9. On the Front Lines; Chapter 10. Fall of the Philippines.

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