The Years Between: 1939-1944 - Memoirs.
Beaton, Cecil.
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston,
Date Published: 1965.
Description: Elegant, moving, totally engaging, the memoirs of Cecil Beaton impart a fascinating bittersweet quality that remains with the reader long after the book has been put down. Beaton's travels, his intimacy with leading figures of Great Britain, his candid self-appraisal-all are part of a brilliant, extraordinary revelation, not only of one man, but of an entire nation in crisis. As official photographer to the wartime Ministry of Information, Beaton led photographic safaris to the far ends of the world, an assignment that enabled him to see the war from the varied viewpoints of politicians, admirals, generals, socialites, RAF pilots, and bombed-out cockneys. Between trips, Beaton photographed figures such as Winston Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt, and he enjoyed occasional interludes in London society with people such as Edith Evans, Noel Coward, and Lord Montbatten. The author's prose portraits of his distinguished companions are as telling as his best photographs. Overshadowing all the excitement, however, was Beaton's persistent feeling that he was not doing enough. During most of the war years, in fact, despite his dangerous and necessary assignments, Beaton felt utterly useless. This curious strain of guilt lends an oddly wishful tone to much that ought to have been pure, joyous ad-venture. Of The Wandering Years, Cecil Beaton's diaries from 1922 to 1939, Siriol ilugh-Jones commented that Mr. Beaton had written "an enormously illuminating book, colored by a curious kind of nervous, glittering unhappiness and a painful honesty, about a multitalented man with an apparently limitless reserve of energy." In THE YEARS BETWEEN, there is the same glittering unhappiness, the same honesty, and an even richer unfolding of an enormously facile talent. ------ Stated FIRST EDITION. 352 pages includes 34 black and white photos throughout. The book is in VERY GOOD condition but the page edges has some discoloration and smudging. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious people.
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in None dj
Book Id: 809
Price: $12.00
