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62 LUCIAN READ FOREWORD by Dan Rather a freelancer. He quickly became a regular for my hard-news program Dan Rather Reports . During his tenure Lucian’s forte remained the still camera, but he quickly added the ability to do moving pictures for television as well. Most of his work at that time was in Iraq and Afghanistan. He excelled, all while doubling as a producer of news segments for which I was the correspondent and anchor. We had a sense of camaraderie almost right from the beginning. In the field we sometimes shared rations and often talked of war zones past and present. At base, Lucian is a bit of a loner and tends to be laconic—doesn’t say a lot (at least when he is working). Once, in a dangerous piece of Afghanistan, I tried to loosen him up. It was an attempt and effort to get him to say something other than just “Yup,” “Nope,” or “I dunno.” I joked to him that if there had beenwar photographers in ancient Greece, Homer would have written one—someone like Lucian—into The Iliad . Lucian didn’t respond, other than to shrug. Now I suspect why: when it comes to the ancients, he prefers Virgil and The Aeneid . Far into the distant future, when historians and poets want to know what war was like in the early twenty-first century—what it was really like—they will do well to look up Lucian Read’s work, including this book. » SEE PAGE 72 While covering wars off and on for over fifty-five years, I have known many of the best war photographers of our times. Lucian Read is among them. His photographs have not been limited to those of war; Lucian has photographed a wide range of subjects all over the world. However, his signature work has been in and out of war zones: deft portrayals not only of warriors, but of all those touched by battle and within harm’s reach. Often, the suffering of women, children, and the elderly is little noted, if at all. This is not the case in All of Which I Saw . At its best, photography is a universal language that speaks from and to the heart. So it is with Lucian and what he has recorded for posterity. While he may protest the description, he is a true artist, as well as a superb technician. This praise is not something I give to him; he has earned it. The hard way. He worked for it, poured his heart and soul into it, and put his life on the line many times for it. Blood, sweat, tears, and nights alone far from home in one hellhole after another. He has undoubtedly paid the price to be the photographer he has become. I first met Lucian in the early 2000s, well before he became one of the most respected artists in his craft. At that time he was scratching around trying to eke out a living as THE LUFTWAFFE IN WWII: MISCELLANEOUS AIRCRAFT & TOPICS German Aircraft Landing Gear: A Detailed Study of German WWII Combat Aircraft Günther Sengfelder. This highly detailed illus- trated book explores the landing gear systems of a large variety of WWII German combat aircraft in both photos and detailed line drawings. Size: 8.5"x11" • 500 photos/drawings • 246pp. ISBN: 0-88740-470-7 • hard • $35.00 German Aircraft Cockpits 1911-70 Peter W. Cohausz. Using the cockpits of approximately sixty military and civil aircraft as examples, this book follows the development of aircraft instruments in Germany from 1911-1970. The standards and developments of each period are described and the instrumentation of each cockpit is identified. There is also a general explanation of the science of aircraft instruments and the function of various equipment. Size: 8.5"x11" • 470 color/bw photos • 304pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1873-X • hard • $69.95 German Aircraft in Russian and Soviet Service 1914-51 Alexandrov & Petrov. These two books, by authors Andrei Alexandrov and Genadi Petrov, illustrated with many previously unpublished photos, depict the blooming period of the Soviet aviation industry, which owed a great deal of its knowledge to technology derived from German designs. The two volumes cover the World War I years through World War II to the early-1950s Vol. 1 1914-40 Size: 9"x12" • 250 bw photos/profiles • 144pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1675-3 • hard • $39.95 Vol. 2 1941-51 Size: 9"x12" • 250 bw photos/profiles • 144pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1676-1 • hard • $39.95