I spent a magnificent day with “Images of World War II: Photographs from the Daily Mail“. Anyone in love with big, black-and-white documentary photographs would enjoy this one, containing for the most part pictures made in London during those times.

It’s surreal when it registers that you could walk around the same areas in the great city – the parliament buildings, the Buckingham Palace, the tube stations, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, St. Paul’s Cathedral among the many more – that held such drama 60 years ago. The monuments develop such character when seen through these books that freeze history, having witnessed several epochs of change in the past 60 years. I felt privileged to experience the grandeur of them all, seemingly unshakable in these times of rapid development, in the same manner as scores of our kind have done through the past decades.

To behold the steady march of mankind across time around such pivotal points is fascinating.