Blood and Champagne is a fitting title for a biography of Robert Capa. Friend of Hemingway, Steinbeck, and John Huston, lover of beautiful women (including Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman), Capa lived a life filled with equal parts glamour and danger. The best of combat photographers, his assignments pulled him into the worst fighting of the Spanish Civil War, the landings at Normandy, paratrooper missions over Holland, and the first years of the Indochina conflict, where he was killed in l954 at age forty-one. When still in his thirties he helped found the Magnum photo agency and was known to generals and bartenders, politicians, gamblers, and movie stars. Yet no one knew that Capa was not even his real name, and that his greatest artistic achievement may well have been himself.
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