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Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943
Henry T. Gorrell
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Hardcover. Covers early Axis intervention in Spain and their tests of new weaponry and blitzkrieg tactics at the cost of millions of Spanish lives. This work provides eyewitness impressions of what war looked, sounded, and felt like to soldiers on the ground. Editor(s): Gorrell, Kenneth. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 illustrations, maps, index. BIC Classification: BM; DNJ; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
Sentenced to death as a Fascist spy by Republican forces in war-torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman's life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator over Greece, war correspondent Henry 'Hank' Gorrell often found himself in the thick of the fighting he had been sent to cover. And in reporting on some of the world's most dangerous stories, he held newspaper readers spellbound with his eyewitness accounts from battlefields across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. An 'exclusive' United Press correspondent, Gorrell saw more than his share of war, even more than most reporters, as his beat took him from the ... Read more
Sentenced to death as a Fascist spy by Republican forces in war-torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman's life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator over Greece, war correspondent Henry 'Hank' Gorrell often found himself in the thick of the fighting he had been sent to cover. And in reporting on some of the world's most dangerous stories, he held newspaper readers spellbound with his eyewitness accounts from battlefields across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. An 'exclusive' United Press correspondent, Gorrell saw more than his share of war, even more than most reporters, as his beat took him from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826218513
SKU
V9780826218513
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About Henry T. Gorrell
Kenneth Gorrell discovered the original manuscript of Hank Gorrell in a family attic. He is an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and lives in Northfield, New Hampshire.
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