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Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs [Hardcover]

Tony Hillerman (Author), Frank Kessler (Photographer)
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  • Hardcover: 79 pages
  • Publisher: Kent State University Press (June 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0873388070
  • ISBN-13: 978-0873388078
  • Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.4 x 1.3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 658 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,733,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Photos bring World War II to life in vivid black and white, Jun 8 2005
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs (Hardcover)
Compiled and organized by Tony Hillerman, the photos drawn from the collection of Frank Kessler bring World War II to life in vivid black and white reality in Kilroy Was There: A GI's War In Photographs. Kessler was a young accountant when he was drafted and sent to war in Europe. He saved hundreds of photos at war's end and kept them in the attic until his death: his younger brother found the photos which represented another side of the war, preserved and ordered the photos, and here they document the GI's war experience for modern audiences.

5.0 out of 5 stars Unvarnished Look at Combat in the ETO!, Jan 21 2011
By Michael OConnor "Wordsmith" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs (Hardcover)
KILROY WAS THERE is an affecting, unblemished, you-are-there look at the American advance through Europe following the D-Day invasion. Shot by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers - and saved from the dustbin by one of those photographers at war's end - they show war as the common dogface experienced it. The world seen in KILROY WAS THERE isn't one of parade-ground formations, victory parades and brass bands. Rather it's one of hard slogging and rare moments of peaceful bliss intermixed with the sheer terror of combat. The book is a rare and fascinating look at the reality of World War II combat in the ETO.

KILROY WAS THERE is the result of a three-way collaboration. Frank Kessler took/saved the photographs featured in the book. His brother, Lee, found the photos after Kessler's death, organized and cataloged them. Then novelist Tony Hillerman, himself a WW II vet, came into the picture and supplied the acompanying text.

The images in the Kessler/Hillerman book are almost all candids, catching GIs on the march, warily edging through a town eyes alert for snipers, snatching a ride on a Sherman, engaging the enemy in combat, chowing down, peeling spuds, 'taking five,' bathing in a stream, aiding dead/wounded buddies/Germans, viewing concentration camp victims, etc.

All in all, KILROY WAS THERE is an evocative look back at - and tribute to - the young American citizen-soldiers and the war they fought. Recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a book to keep!, July 19 2009
By P. A TILLERY "kilroywashere-org" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs (Hardcover)
Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs

by Tony Hillerman. Photos by Frank Kessler

This book is a treasure of gray scale WWII photographs from the European theater in WWII. As you will see these photos were taken by a combat photographer who was there! They remained in his attic long after he died until his brother found them. When one of my favorite writers found these treasures, he published them with his narrative based on the original captions. This is a book to keep!

Now, if I may be allowed a little self-congratulation, note on several pages throughout the book my registered copyrighted version of the graffiti appears. I'm not pointing out the registered copyright to attempt to stop it's use but to establish authorship. I, with my own two hands (after much research) drew this version in 1997. It has been registered since 1998.

Don't get me wrong, I have granted permission to any and everyone who asked. I am just so proud that my version of the millions has become the worldwide accepted version.
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