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10a 5000 km S ROL BAR BASQUE PRED DVEMA LETY TO THE PHOTOS LEFT: In the untouched Saint. Jean-de-Luz. View of the famous stiedis- ko, where there was a gathering of newspapers during the civil war in Spain. 3. óer. vence 1940 Vitry-en-Artois. Fran-cousine aircraft, destroyed on the ground. Photo-painted on 28 June 1940 - On the na-městí in Péronne 23. ćervna 1940. Bel. Gitish refugees return to their homes in the southern French town of Poitiers on 1 July 1940 veder © Right: Protective py. ramida in front of the main portal of the famous cathedral in Reims. On 6 July 1940 RED two years, several hours after the ceasefire on the western front. Several Czech journalists came from Berlin to see what they saw in the west fighting, after-- revealed to their nation the secret of German success and outlined the extent of Anglo-French defeat and thus put the causes before his eyes, which led to the French collapse. One of them, Dr. Václav Fiala, summarized shortly after the return of his impressions in the book FOCATED FRANCE. This report from a 14-day journey, which was 5,000 km long, which led from Prague through Berlin to the foot of the Pyrenees, is really a unique document. Politically, it was evaluated by the Czech press right after the exit. The readers took three issues apart. But what pictures and circumstances photographed! Perhaps only the photo amateur can appreciate the result of the rich women's footage and theme that Fiala brings. Suppose you photographers who are used to playing with the subject", wait for the real clouds to come, set up a group according to their wishes, or come up with the apparatus only when the architecture has the real lighting". All of you, who carefully measure every cxpositive time, imagine that you would have to only photograph it at the short stops of an antocarn, when the moments that others spend eating and rest, you really have to steal to bring the picture, in fact. Imagine that you will stop at, say, Brussels. Between nine o'clock, ecclesiastical and pûlosmon an hour in the morning and it will rain on you. And yet you want to get - and the author really took a number of good shots. Here are all the lessons about photography built on your head. Purple images created under these unfavorable assumptions are the best proof of what modern optics and today's sensitive material mean in the hands of a sleepy amateur. Many of the pictures that Václav Fiala on his journey are extraordinary, short periods of time and never to repeat themselves to the dokumcnt. Take a look at the pictures from the populated Paris. Perhaps no one will ever succeed again, eo captured VáClav Fial. "Rue de la Paix in the morning" 5-l0 pedestrians, the same picture in front of the Paris Opera or the Eiffel Tower. Peace, emptiness and silence in the rooms, which at other times bloom with life, which is filled with people, cars and buses day and night. What contrast to the Paris peace is destroyed by Dünkirchen, where the ruins of the buildings, arrive full of the flood 150 WORLDOZOR-13