In November 1938 Picture Post devoted 11 pages to pictures of a Loyalist attack on Insurgent troops outside Barcelona. They described one, showing men sheltering from falling shells, as 'the most amazing war picture ever taken'. The caption to the full-page portrait of the photographer read 'The Greatest War-Photographer in the World: Robert Capa'. Life also ran the story and described how Capa had crossed the river Segre with the troops the night before the action.

LRB 7 November 1985 | PDF Download