Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and MemoirsFordham Univ Press, 2006 - 236 σελίδες "No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead is one of the legendary reporters of World War II. For the Associated Press he covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe--from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in the recent Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism. From the fall of September 1942, as a freshly minted A.P. journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, Whitehead kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Back home later, Whitehead started, but never finished, a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat. John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a vivid, unvarnished, and completely riveting story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Here, Whitehead captures the fierce fighting in the African desert and Sicilian mountains, as well as rare insights into the daily grind of reporting from a war zone, where tedium alternated with terror. In the tradition of cartoonist Bill Mauldin's memoir Up Front, Don Whitehead's powerful self-portrait is destined to become an American classic. |
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... Marie and I were married our four- teenth anniversary and I'm sitting in a tent in the desert 10,000 miles from home . " In Médenine , Tunisia , in March 1943 , he wrote in a similar vein : " There was a letter from Marie , 2 Introduction.
... desert and pursuing Rommel in what seemed an endless “ fox and hound ” chase , Whitehead wrote despairingly : " Most of my thoughts of the future revolve around one person — and that is Marie . God , how I want her— how I long to hold ...
... desert, he grouses: ''Cairo becomes more nerve-racking as the days go by. This place gets on your nerves, in your hair and rasps like a file. It's the politics, the gossip and the petty problems, which only hamper any effort to get a ...
... desert . Once we stopped and watched the burial of a young Scot beside the road . Across the sands rolled the high , reedy wailing of the bagpipes , a thin and mournful dirge in the roar of planes overhead and the rumbling of tanks and ...
... desert country. We spent the night at the RAF quarters. Again the bed was too short. And for the first time since leaving home we didn't have electric lights and flush toilets! We may be slow to reach decisions and work the democratic ...
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Part 3 In Pursuit of Rommel Libya November 1942February 1943 | 57 |
Part 4 Victory in Tunisia MarchApril 1943 | 123 |
Part 5 Sicily JulyAugust 1943 | 151 |
Command Sergeant Major Ben Franklin | 207 |
APPENDIX | 215 |
NOTES | 227 |
INDEX | 231 |
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