There once was a war : the collected color photography of World War II

The most important historical event of the 20th century was a war that seemed to be fought in black-and-white. Our collective memory of the years 1941-1945 exists in monochrome, because that is the way most of us saw it - and continue to see it - in the films and still pictures of the day. Color film for motion pictures and still cameras was readily available then, but was not in wide use because of its fragility and the difficulties of developing it. But there were. "Featuring the Jeffrey Ethell collection of World War II color photography." 224 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm