City Ablaze: Life With the World's Busiest Fire-Fighters by Lloyd-Elliott, Martin
City Ablaze: Life With the World's Busiest Fire-Fighters by Lloyd-Elliott, Martin
Hardcover
ISBN 9780747511564 / 074751156X
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , 1992
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
The fireman's world has traditionally been a private one: fire-fighters are the silent service, always playing down their image as heroes. Fireman have inspired writers and painters since the beginning of the last century, yet until recently any portrayal of their rescues has been a romanticised account, not documentary. This book is a comprehensive study of one fire station, its men, their lives and their work. Martin Lloyd-Elliott never outgrew his childhood fascination with the fire engines of Soho, and when, in 1992, he was assigned as a photojournalist to spend a week covering the Soho Fire Station (the biggest in Britain), it was the realisation of a dream. Since then he has ridden on more than 15,000 emergency calls with Soho firefighters, recording thier actions in words and photographs.
