Drawing D-Day: an Artist's Journey Through War
An Artist's Journey Through War
$79.46
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2019
Summary
Drawing D-Day: An Artist’s Journey Through War offers an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind testimony in words and images by a soldier and artist who participated in one of the most famous military operations of World War II. On June 6, 1944, Ugo Giannini landed on Omaha Beach with a platoon of military police assigned to accompany the U.S. Army’s 29th Infantry Division. Only six of the thirty-seven men in the platoon made it to the beach. Told that he was needed on the bluff above the shore, Ugo c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486832425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486832422 |
| Author: | Iugo Giannin |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 75th |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.12kg |
| Dimensions: | 286mm x 219mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Iugo Giannin
Ugo Giannini studied at the National Academy of Design in New York. His education was interrupted by WWII, during which he served with the Army’s 29th Infantry Division and was among the first wave of soldiers to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. After the war, he continued his studies at the Art Students League in New York, as well as with Fernand Leger in Paris, and he taught art at Caldwell College in New Jersey.
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