"Complementing this naturally talented writing are one hundred and eighty remarkable photographs from the Lee Miller Archives, many previously unpublished. With their own quality of surrealist irony, which verges at times on the horrific and at other times on the hilarious, they show war-ravaged cities, buildings, and landscapes but also war-resilient people--soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains, and the heroes." "There is the raw edge of combat portrayed during the siege of St Malo and the bitterly fought Alsace campaign, and the disbelief and outrage Lee Miller describes at being among the first to witness the victims of Dachau. The horror is relieved by the spirit of post-Liberation Paris. Here she indulged in frivolous fashions and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard, Aragon, and Colette. She ends with a first-on-the-scene report giving a sardonic description of Hitler's abandoned house in Munich and the looting and burning of his alpine fortress at Berchtesgaden, which marks a symbolic end to the war."--BOOK JACKET.