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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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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... asked about the chances for a foreign assignment . It was the usual old brush- off— “ You're more valuable where you are . ” So I just forgot about the whole thing and said to myself that it wasn't in the books for me to get a foreign ...
... asked . " Oh , no , " the Liberian government representative said . " But I have a little book I sell for 25 cents telling something about Liberia . " The least we could do was buy a book . Even Gene Talwadyn would have appreciated that ...
... asked . " We got movies , " the soldier said , " and sometimes we go to the vil- lages nearby or to San Juan . " There's plenty of rum and women but none of it worth a damn . " The women are spoiled now . When the soldiers first came ...
... 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.
... asked for Colonel Hayne . The Captain who an- swered was apologetic : " I'm sorry . Headquarters closes at one o'clock . You see we conform to the British hours . " My God ! And the people at home are whiplashed for complacency ...
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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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