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About Veterans: Faces Of World War II
Product Description Ichiro Sudai trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans—"people who fought in the war and know what war really means." These are some of the faces and stories in the remarkable Veterans, the outcome of a worldwide project by Sasha Maslov to interview and photograph the last surviving combatants from World War II. Soldiers, support staff, and resistance fighters candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects in this unforgettable, intimate record of the end of a cataclysmic chapter in world history and tribute to the members of an indomitable generation. Veterans is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time. Review "In a new book, "Veterans," the Ukranian-born photographer Sasha Maslov brings memories of World War II to life in moving, and incredibly personal, detail. Maslov presents 53 vivid portraits of the veterans of the war - who were stationed all over the world, and whose experiences are starkly different. Each vet is pictured in the context of his or her own home, and their portraits are presented alongside in-depth interviews. Among them are Surhan Singh, of New Delhi, India, who was deployed in Burma; Michele Montagano of Compobasso, Italy, who was captured by the Germans and asked to betray his country - and Jack J. Diamond, of Miami who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The project is, as Maslov writes, "a mosaic of people who were all engaged in this incredible tragedy at one moment and in the next were living their separate lives in different corners of the planet." Of the interviews he conducted with the veterans, Maslov adds, "There was an incredible power of forgiveness, no matter how big the atrocities were that they had endured, and it was clear to me how much one's perspective changes with time." " - T Magazine "For this project, Ukrainian-born Maslov photographed 53 veterans of World War II from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sri Lanka, India, China, and Japan. Not all of the subjects fought as soldiers: the French Resistance is represented, as are women nurses and a female field worker in Russia. A Japanese woman recounts how long it took her to come to terms with America's bombing of Hiroshima. A common experience shared over time is that regardless of which side one fought on, having served one's country trumps national enmity. Maslov shot photographs in the subjects' homes, letting them choose the setting and using a color-loaded electric palette that enhances rather than reduces the subject. Then he asked them to talk. The result is an outstanding photographic essay accompanied by moving stories. Without Maslov's intervention, this is a valuable piece of history that would have been lost. VERDICT Those interested in World War II photography will love this book, which echoes the famous midcentury photo exhibition The Family of Man but stands on its own as an act of appreciation approaching love from a master photographer." - Library Journal, Starred Review "For this beautiful book Ukrainian-born Sasha Maslov set out to interview and photograph the last living participants of World War II. The project took him the best part of six years, and he tracked down more than 100 veterans - support staff, resistance fighters, concentration camp survivors and even a Kamikaze pilot. Maslov's masterful portraits offer the subjects real dignity, and the interviews provide candid accounts of what it means to have experienced, and survived, war. It's a fitting look at the passage of time, and the endurance of the human spirit." - Amateur Photographer (UK) "Fifty-three full-page color portraits of 54 survivors (including eight from the U.S., five
