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The Kissing Sailor - The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II (Paperback)
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The Kissing Sailor - The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II (Paperback)
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On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor
kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of
Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE
magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous
WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph
ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a
cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be
over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the
nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search
for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its
own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse.
And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next
thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J
Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the
sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with
claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over
another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and
George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the
identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous
photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this
mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their
findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others
and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when
another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book,
the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable
proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the
first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been
revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the
photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their
famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The
sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the
deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors.
The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the
Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States.
Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at
Flanders.
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Imprint: |
Naval Institute Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Lawrence Verria
• George Galdorisi
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-68247-902-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-68247-902-1 |
Barcode: |
9781682479025 |
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