Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944
by Samuel Hynes (Editor), Anne Matthews (Editor), Nancy Caldwell Sorel (Editor), Roger Spiller (Editor)
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Includes selections by Ernie Pyle, William L. Shirer, Dorothy Thompson, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow, Margaret Bourke-White, Howard K. Smith, E.B. White, Brendan Gill, Richard Tregaskis, John Hersey, Homer Bigart, I.F. Stone, S.J. Perelman, Robert Sherrod, Ernest Hemingway, Irwin Shaw, Bill Mauldin, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, James Agee, and others. Includes chronology and 9 maps.Tags
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Mostly excellent. There were a few selections that were more reporter-centric then I would have preferred, but then it is a book about reporting WW II.
Liebling, Pyle, and the Tarawa account stand out.
Liebling, Pyle, and the Tarawa account stand out.
One of the best anthologies to come out of WWII. This volume begins with William Shirer's account of the Munich Conference in 1938 and ends with Walter Bernstein's report on the Italian campaign in 1944. In between we have Gertrude Stein, living in German occupied France; Martha Gellhorn in a RAF burn ward and dispatches from the famed Ernie Pyle. Superb eye-witness reporting.
Really good stuff. Wish I knew more about the journalists themselves, but still very good. The VietNam series I thought better primarily because I could relate to it better. Still good! Finished 10 June 2021.
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Samuel Hynes is a Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University.
Anne Matthews is the author of two previous books, "Where the Buffalo Roam" & "Bright College Years". She is a contributing editor for "Preservation" magazine. (Bowker Author Biography)
Nancy Caldwell Sorel has been a regular feature writer for the Atlantic Monthly and a contributor to Esquire, GQ, Forbes, and the New York Times Book Review. Her other books include Word People, Ever Since Eve, and First Encounters.
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- Canonical title
- Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944
- Original title
- Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944
- People/Characters
- Ernie Pyle
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
- Publisher's editor
- Matthews, Anne; Sorel, Nancy Caldwell; Spiller, Roger J.; Hynes, Samuel
- Disambiguation notice
- This is an omnibus unique to the Library of America; therefore, all CK facts apply to this publication only.
This is volume one, 1938-1944 of Reporting World War II. Please do not combine with volume two, 1944-... (show all)1946 or with the two volume set.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 070.4 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Journalism
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- PN4867 .R47 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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