Blood and champagne

The book reconstructs the life and times of Robert Capa, the most famous photojournalist of the 20th century. Capa had his most iconic photographs published in the world's leading magazines, founded the legendary Magnum agency, and was the first to give his profession an aura of glamour and fame. Kershaw narrates a thrilling journey that takes the reader from fascist Budapest to French Indochina, passing through Nazi Berlin and the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Based on extensive interviews with friends and contemporaries of the great photographer, as well as secret Soviet and FBI archives and other previously unpublished material, this biography is as exciting and compelling as the subject himself.