History and Roster of the Fourth and Fifth Independent Battalions and Thirteenth Regiment Oh... Book

In a strange way Cecil Beaton is totally underrated as a photographer, considering he's known as a photographer and of course as a 'personality.' But his portraits are incredible, and the fashion shoots are really out of this world.

This is a very good biography on the man and his world - and what a world it was. Beaton would never survive the 21st Century. Or maybe he would have? Being sort of an outsider who knew all the inside people - he strikes me as someone who is observing from outside the window. Maybe that is why I am so attracted to him and his work. He's a good diarist as well.