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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Art director
Helen Mills
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
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A recruit’s private memories of World War II in a series of word pictures comprise a universal picture of all recruits and of all wars.
Designer’s Comments: The pictures, actual snapshots taken by the author during the war, were a problem from a legal standpoint. Even after 400 percent enlargement, people were still recognizable. The solution, softening the photographs, resulted in also adding to the mood of the book.