These Are the Russians (1943)

"For My Friend, Colleague and Companion Alfred Eisenstaedt": Extraordinary Copy of Richard Lauterbach's These Are the Russians, Inscribed by Him to His Friend and Fellow LIFE Journalist, the Acclaimed Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt Lauterbach, Richard E. These Are the Russians. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Octavo. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Second edition of this collection of a journalist's observations about the Russians and Ukrainians in World War II, including the Battle of Leningrad, mentions of Nazi atrocities, and insights into the Soviet character, inscribed by author Richard Lauterbach to his friend and LIFE magazine colleague, the famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, with whom he wrote a story on Japan in the immediate aftermath of the war. When Richard Lauterbach made a second visit to the Soviet Union in 1944, he found a country transformed by war. Instead of focusing on economics, politics, or the military, Lauterbach focused on meeting and talking to