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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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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... Rommel ( Libya ) , November 1942 – February 1943 Part 4 123 Victory in Tunisia , March - April 1943 Part 5 252 Sicily , July - August 1943 AFTERWORD 207 Command Sergeant Major Ben Franklin APPENDIX 215 NOTES 227 INDEX 231 Contents.
... Rommel for the Associated Press , Whitehead quickly learned the difference between the war correspondent and the combat correspondent . As he wrote in his unpublished autobiography in the early 1950s , the text of which is incorporated ...
... 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 her in my arms — that ...
... about Vichy . They know they're in a hot spot . But if Rommel can be knocked out , the pressure will be off . Capt. John Henry, P.R.O. [Public Relations Officer], took us on From Manhattan to Cairo , September - October 1942 2 I.
... am asked ''How long will the war last?'' How can anyone tell? The British say they can knock off Rommel in 30 days after starting their campaign . I hope they're right . It would From Manhattan to Cairo, September–October 1942 25.
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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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