The World Aflame

The Long War, 1914-1945

Dan Jones, Marina Amaral

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English

Head of Zeus
01 August 2020

Photographs: collections; History; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

A visually stunning history of global conflict from 1914 to 1945, from Dan Jones and Marina Amaral – the team who created The Colour of Time.

'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' ObserverThe epic, harrowing and world-changing story – in words and colourized images – of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain, wars in Latin America, Britain's imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine, and events on the domestic 'fronts' of the belligerent nations.

Like The Colour of Time, this is a collaboration between the gifted Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, and the leading British historian Dan Jones. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving – and often terrifying – perspective on the bloodiest century in human history.

'A new perspective on the bloodiest half-century in history'Daily Mail

'Immensely vivid'Sunday Times

'Brings history to life in breaktaking technicolour'Financial Times

'Revelatory'Daily Express

'The past – even its grimmest, darkest hours – was not in black and white'Guardian

By: Dan Jones, Marina Amaral
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm,
ISBN: 9781788547789
ISBN 10: 1788547780
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 August 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marina Amaral is a talented Brazilian artist who specializes in the colourization of historical photographs and is the author of The Colour of Time. Dan Jones is a historian and bestselling author of The Colour of Time, The Templars, Magna Carta and The Plantagenets.

Reviews for The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945

PRAISE FOR THE COLOUR OF TIME: '[The Colour of Time] does something simple yet extraordinary. It takes black-and-white photos of historic events and colours them in. The effect is transformative' Daily Telegraph. 'I have long considered colourisation sacrilege ... after reading this book, I've changed my mind' The Times. 'The most breathtakingly colourised black-and-white pictures ever' Daily Mail. 'A splash of colour is all it took to bring these historic black and white photos back to vivid, breathtaking life ... Astonishing' Sun. 'Both revelatory and familiar. Amaral's skills bring 19th- and early 20th-century photographic images to wholly unexpected and vivid life ... Jones offers perceptive commentary, contextualising the events and people depicted with concise skill, meaning that this fine book is hugely readable' Observer.