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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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. |
Αναζήτηση στο βιβλίο
Αποτελέσματα 1 - 5 από τα 39.
... Sicily . 4. World War , 1939–1945— Journalists — Diaries . 5. World War , 1939–1945 — Personal narratives , American 6. War correspondents — United States — Diaries . I. Romeiser , John Beals , 1948– II . Title . D766.82.W48 2006 940.54 ...
... of 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.
... 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 In the case of the unpublished book, I have done some modest ...
... Sicily into mainland Italy in August 1943 , he tells us , was dubbed Draftee . He also possessed a knack for metaphor , describing how a battered seaside villa “ trembled like a palsied old gentleman " during a heavy shelling at Anzio ...
... Sicily campaign, Whitehead assumed the considerable risks of frontline reporting, so that he could get a more authentic story for his readers back home. Years later, he ex- plained that the reason he wanted to leave the safety and ...
Περιεχόμενα
1 | |
9 | |
29 | |
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 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs Don Whitehead Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2009 |
Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs Don Whitehead Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2006 |
Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs Don Whitehead Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2009 |