The World Aflame

The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images * Observer *
Amaral's colourised images bring history to life in breathtaking technicolour. Although, actually, Amaral's palette is far more nuanced and beautiful than that * Financial Times *
Frequently stark and sometimes bleak... but this is a testament to the quality of Amaral's work, and its effect on the human eye' * Military History *
The past – even its grimmest, darkest hours – was not in black and white * Guardian *
A new perspective to the bloodiest half-century in history * Daily Mail *
For the first time, we are seeing the scenes in colour as images from a new book show how much changes but how much stays the same as history unfolds. Covering the years between 1914-1945, The World Aflame shows the planet gripped by wars, the rise of right-wing governments and a deadly pandemic * Sunday Post *
You may need a strong stomach for some of the images, but they are immensely vivid, and Jones's text is crisp * Sunday Times *
While many can claim to show you Winston Churchill as he's never been seen before, this photograph is perhaps a true first * Discover Britain *
To see Winston Churchill's youthful freckly face in 1911 is revelatory. In a single image, we see how far the journey was from a somewhat gadabout sea lord to Our National Saviour * Daily Express *
Stunning * People's Friend *
Jones's commentaries are small miracles of compression... Amaral's achievement in bringing colour as 'an emotional enhancing agent' to these photographs is extraordinary' * World of Interiors *
You may feel that you have seen it all before; this book triumphantly suggests otherwise * Daily Mail *