Overview
- Summary
- Describes the lives and dangers faced by five war correspondents who reported from the line of fire during World War II to provide content for the newspapers and magazines back home.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : New American Library, [2012]
©2012 - Locale
- United States
Europe
Africa, North - Contents
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D-Day for all their lives
Early impressions
"All sorts of horrors" : crossing Torpedo Junction
North Africa's lipless kiss
Angry meteors in Tunisia
Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th
Falling like dying moths
Sicily
darker than a witch's hat
White Crosses along the Red Rapido
The Blitz Spirit : London and the Home Front
Cherbourg and St.-Lô : ugly fighting among dead cattle
The breakout : Merci! merci! merci!
Rescuing the kitten : Paris redeemed
Gasping cough : crashing into Holland
Gray phantoms and murder factories : the Bulge to Buchenwald
A good age. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-498) and index.
D-Day for all their lives -- Early impressions -- "All sorts of horrors" : crossing Torpedo Junction -- North Africa's lipless kiss -- Angry meteors in Tunisia -- Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th -- Falling like dying moths -- Sicily-- darker than a witch's hat -- White Crosses along the Red Rapido -- The Blitz Spirit : London and the Home Front -- Cherbourg and St.-Lô : ugly fighting among dead cattle -- The breakout : Merci! merci! merci! -- Rescuing the kitten : Paris redeemed -- Gasping cough : crashing into Holland -- Gray phantoms and murder factories : the Bulge to Buchenwald -- A good age.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451236883
0451236882 - Physical Description
- xiv, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North. War correspondents--United States--Biography. Biographies. Cronkite, Walter. Rooney, Andrew A. Liebling, A. J.--(Abbott Joseph),--1904-1963. Bigart, Homer,--1907-1991. Boyle, Hal.
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