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Title: They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II by Brian Lanker ISBN: 1-57500-199-3 Publisher: TV Books Inc Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Soul of War
Comment: This collection fills a small void in WWII history. To this point we could read stories, hear stories, read books on campaigns,look at photographs and film, and even watch full color film of battles (see WWII in Color DVD, Lost Color Archives DVD, Mein Krieg DVD), but none of these mediums can convey the things that painting can. Paintings speak to us without words. They need no translation. This is the soul of WWII and should be part of anyone's collection.

Rating: 4
Summary: Charlie Rose Interview
Comment: This book is meant to accompany a documentary, and when I saw the director and two of the combat artists on Charlie Rose (5/19/00?), they showed several of the drawings from the book, and they were pretty amazing.

I think it's true that we think of WWII as primarily a photographer's war, but some of these paintings give a new feeling (one driven by an artist's emotion) to the war that isn't quite the same as through photography.

Even though I only saw a few of the paintings on the interview, it was enough for me to plan to buy the book.