EUGENE DOWNING,
Sir, - In Kevin Myers's review of Alex Kershaw Macmillan's book Blood and Champagne; The Life and Times of Robert Capa (Books, July 20th), he expresses doubt about the authenticity of Capa's famous picture of a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War being killed in action.
There may have been some justification for this lack of certainty at one time, but it has since been established that the militiaman was 24-year old Frederico Borrell Garcia from Alcoy near Alacante.
This information is contained in a book of Spanish Civil War photographs published by the Imperial War Museum and entitled The Spanish Civil War - Dreams and Nightmares. The introductory text is written by Prof Paul Preston. - Yours etc.
EUGENE DOWNING, Lower Lockstown, Valleymount, Co Wicklow.