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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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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... North 3. World War , 1939–1945 — Campaigns — Italy — Sicily . 4. World War , 1939–1945— Journalists — Diaries . 5. World War , 1939–1945 — Personal narratives , American 6. War correspondents — United States — Diaries . I. Romeiser ...
... North Africa and Sicily and omits his coverage of the fierce combat on the Italian peninsula, the Normandy invasion and battle for France, and the subsequent liberation of Nazi Germany. In the case of the unpublished book, I have done ...
... North Africa that she missed him deeply , just as he so profoundly missed her . Some of his most poignant entries relate to their separation . On December 4 , 1942 , Whitehead wrote from Cairo , a city that he found both enticing and ...
... North Africa . It is unclear why Whitehead stopped writing his impressions and reflections one month before Allied troops captured Tunis and expelled the Germans and Italians . Perhaps once he had been assigned to Sicily to cover the ...
... North Africa and Sicily drew to a close, Don Whitehead went on to cover the invasion of Italy, the landings in Nor- mandy on D-Day, the race across France (getting a well-deserved scoop on the liberation of Paris), and, finally, the ...
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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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