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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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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... began working on a book on ]. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, a topic made much more relevant and marketable by Cold War fears. The Whitehead war diary was found in his personal possessions in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his only child, Ruth ...
... began when he joined the wire service in 1935 as night editor in Memphis, Tennessee, and then became an AP correspondent in Knoxville from 1937 to 1940. In early 1941, Whitehead was transferred to New York as a feature writer. His pay ...
... began the process to be accredited as a war correspondent. Upon his arrival in the Middle East to cover the British Eighth Army's pursuit of General Erwin Rommel for the Associated Press, Whitehead quickly learned the difference between ...
... began giving him pointers on racing and sharing my knowledge of the turf.” As it turns out, the unknown officer is none other than Lieut. Col. C. V. “Sonny” Whitney, a famous and wealthy horse breeder. As Whitehead remembers: “Even in ...
... began turning upstairs. Vic Hackler sent down a letter “for the record”: “Before we send you on an assignment outside this country . . . it is only fair that I outline to you the other side of what may appear now to be a picture of a ...
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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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