A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War

A Danger Shared is a searing visual history of wartime Asia as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collection of never-before-seen images, readers experience glamorous Macau soirées and witness wartime Chongqing's wreckage and resilience. Jacoby treats Filipino fishermen and Hanoi flower-sellers with the same care as the Soong Sisters, Chiang Kai-Shek, and other icons. Through scenes of everyday friendship, toil, and commerce, A Danger Shared documents humanity's persistence at a cataclysmic historical moment.

“Melville Jacoby’s initial trip to China in 1936 continued into his work as a war correspondent and ranged across the country from Guangzhou to Shanghai, Inner Mongolia to Kunming. The photographs he amassed over those half-dozen years capture China just before, and then during, its long struggle and total war against Japan.”

-Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking