Chatting Up A Storm - Claudia Cragg

(@claudiacragg) speaks here for with Richard Cahan (@Picturetweeter) about the book he has put together with Mark Jacob and Michael Williams, :The Human Toll of War.  Richard Cahan is the author of 12 books including an acclaimed history of the federal court in He served as the picture editor of the and is currently an independent scholar at the . The world was in ruin at the end of #WorldWarII: from the #Blitz in London to the atomic bomb blasts in #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. A small group of Army soldiers witnessed it all. They photographed Germany’s last push, the and they rode into Germany to witness unimagined destruction. They documented the Burma Road, which opened Mainland China to supplies, and saw war atrocities as far away as the Philippines. These soldier photographers are acclaimed for their war photographs, but their work showing the impact of total war has never been compiled in a book. As towns fell and the result of years of war were being laid bare, the world began to comprehend the impact