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Combat Reporter
Whitehead, Don; Franklin, Benjamin
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Description for Combat Reporter
Hardback. 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. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BTM; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 536.
“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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823226757
SKU
V9780823226757
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Ref
99-15
About Whitehead, Don; Franklin, Benjamin
Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel, won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story. John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited Beachhead Don: ... Read more
Reviews for Combat Reporter
"Romeiser has done a skillful job in blending these absorbing accounts of one reporter's experiences during a critical campaign for America's inexperienced army." -The Kentucky Register "Whitehead's diary gives us a sense of his day-to-day thinking, unchanged by retrospection and polish." -Journalism History "The book never lets up on its trip into the heart of a strange and deadly nightmare." ... Read more