From Library Journal
With 1995 marking the 50th anniversary of the close of World War II, countless volumes are being produced by numerous publishers. This duo from the venerable Library of America takes a different tack as it approaches the war through the eyes of the reporters and photographers who first delivered its harsh images from the front lines of the jungles, beachheads, and ravaged villages to the American public, often at great personal peril. The text is an amalgam of hard news dispatches, letters, and articles from writers as far-ranging as Ernie Pyle, Bill Mauldin, John Hersey, Edward R. Murrow, and Martha Gellhorn to John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein. Together they impart not only the where and when of events but the emotional toll of war as well. With the advent of television, this is also an archive of a brand of journalism unfortunately long gone. The volumes include 64 pages of photos and more than 200 cartoons, drawings, and maps. The Library of America has outdone itself with this set; Reporting World War II is quite simply outstanding. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries.Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
In a time when public perceptions were shaped by the written and spoken word, war correspondents were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars. Here, for the first time in paperback, the work of more than 50 remarkable reporters has been drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books to capture the intensity of World War II's unfolding drama. This volume includes the work of Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling, E. B. White, William L. Shirer, John Steinbeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward R. Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, James Agee, John Hersey-whose Hiroshima appears in full-and many more. Also included are:
A detailed chronology (1933-1945)
Maps
Profiles of the journalists
Helpful notes
A glossary of military terms, and Notes on the texts
About the Author
The Advisory Board for Reporting World War II includes Samuel Hynes and Anne Matthews, Princeton University, writer Nancy Caldwell Sorel, and Roger J. Spiller, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Reporting World War II: American Journalism, 1938-1946 FROM OUR EDITORS
Can we praise this anthology enough? The table of contents should convince the most war-weary reader, with contributors including A. J. Liebling, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward R. Murrow, James Agee, Lee Miller, Homer Bigart, and John Hersey. Seven hundred and seventy-four pages of journalism verging on literature.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Drawn from wartime newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and books, Reporting World War II captures the unfolding drama through the work of over 50 writers, the best of a remarkable generation of reporters. William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A. J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes. Margaret Bourke-White flies over the lines in Italy; Robert Sherrod and Tom Lea record the horrors in the Pacific; Janet Flanner and Martha Gellhorn examine a defeated Germany. On the homefront, E. B. White visits a bond rally, James Agee reviews newsreels, and Roi Ottley exposes racism in the military. Inchided in full is Hiroshima, John Hersey's classic account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath.
Art & Photography
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