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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."--from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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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... stories and other sources, Whitehead had the time to check the accuracy of his spelling of certain place names and individuals, as well as to shed additional light on his diary's material, which might not have been apparent to him at ...
... story for his readers back home. Years later, he ex- plained that the reason he wanted to leave the safety and security of reporting out of the Associated Press headquarters in New York City was that he ''wanted to be up front where the ...
... story once again, and in 1946, he covered the explosion of an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll. A few short years later, he joined American forces in Korea, where he provided distinguished coverage of that conflict for the AP. His efforts ...
... stories of Bob St. John and Larry Allen and Quentin Reynolds and Drew Middleton I felt so restless and dissatisfied that my work became a burden of trivia . It seemed slightly absurd to be writing of movie stars , Harlem and front page ...
... story if it can be told . There is a vital spot surrounded by Vichy French territory . There are 80,000 well equipped French and native troops across the border of the Ivory Coast . They could raise hell with our supply lines if they ...
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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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