Illustrations from Above All Else, a children's book about the courageous life of World War II correspondent Margaret Bourke-White.
“The upshot of that was that those who flew, and this included most of the brass, stepped out on the African continent with their feet dry. I had to row part of the way.”
(Mediterranean Sea, SS Strathallan, 1942)
“This is the one time in your life when you don’t have the faintest idea what is going to happen to you. You don’t even have even a theory. There’s a fifty percent chance you will live. There's a fifty percent chance you might die.”
(Mediterranean Sea, SS Strathallan, 1942)
"We were bailing out our boat with our helmets now, and the nurses and I were taking turns at the oars….I must confess I never expected to see anyone I knew again.
With sunrise, I took pictures of our boatload of waifs.”
(Mediterranean Sea, SS Strathallan Lifeboat, 1942)
“Strong men might fall by the wayside, but I was ‘Maggie the Indestructible.'"
(North Africa, 1942)
“I was always glad to get back to the air base, because my heart was there with the crews and the big lumbering airplanes and all the dramatic activity.”
(North Africa, 1943)
Each illustration is captioned with a quote from Margaret Bourke-White's memoirs.
For more information on the life and work of Margaret Bourke-White, or to read the full text of Above All Else, please contact Rebecca Thelen through the Behance Network.
For more information on the life and work of Margaret Bourke-White, or to read the full text of Above All Else, please contact Rebecca Thelen through the Behance Network.