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Reporting World War II (boxed set)

Included in full: Bill Mauldin’s Up Front and John Hersey’s Hiroshima More

This deluxe two-volume collector’s boxed set captures a world at war as seen through the eyes of a generation’s greatest reporters.

Overview
News & Views
Table of Contents
Contributors

Overview

News “One More Beach to Cross”: Reliving D-Day through the Eyes of Those Who Were There
June 6, 2024

News “Their Own Tiny Circle of War”: Masters of the Air, in Their Own Words
March 12, 2024

Interviews “Language as a weapon against the seemingly incomprehensible” in three war memoirs
February 4, 2022

This Library of America two-volume boxed set gathers the acclaimed collection that evokes an extraordinary period in American history—and in American journalism. In two authoritative Library of America volumes, nearly 200 pieces by 80 writers record events from Munich to the birth of the nuclear age. Included are reports by William L. Shirer, Edward R. Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, Margaret Bourke-White, and scores of other of the era’s great journalists, as well as the complete texts of two books: Bill Mauldin’s Up Front, the classic evocation of war from the GI’s point of view, presented with his famous cartoons, and Hiroshima, John Hersey’s compassionate account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath. Each volume contains a chronology, maps, biographical profiles, notes and a glossary, and 32 pages of photographs.

The advisory board for Reporting World War II includes Samuel Hynes, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University; Anne Matthews, the first woman to direct the Princeton Writing Program; writer Nancy Caldwell Sorel (1934-2015), and Roger J. Spiller, George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Military History (retired) at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944 is kept in print by a gift from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.

Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946 is kept in print by a gift from the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund, made in memory of Pfc. Paul Cauley Clark.
News & Views

News “One More Beach to Cross”: Reliving D-Day through the Eyes of Those Who Were There
June 6, 2024

News “Their Own Tiny Circle of War”: Masters of the Air, in Their Own Words
March 12, 2024

Interviews “Language as a weapon against the seemingly incomprehensible” in three war memoirs
February 4, 2022

Story of the Week John Fisher, “I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque”
June 4, 2020

News New animated film honors Edward Field, WWII veteran and a hero on several fronts
November 12, 2019
Table of Contents

William L. Shirer
“It’s All Over” (The Munich Conference: September 1938)
Dorothy Thompson
“Peace”—And the Crisis Begins (Germany Occupies the Sudetenland: October 1, 1938)
Vincent Sheean
Aufenthalt in Rosenheim (Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938)
Sigrid Schultz
Hitler Seizes 20,000 Jews (Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938)
William L. Shirer
“At Dawn This Morning Hitler Moved Against Poland” (The War Begins: September 1-3, 1939)
Otto D. Tolischus
Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans (The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939)
Sonia Tomara
Nazi-Red Animosity Described Along Tense Frontier Border in Poland (Poland Caught Between Hitler and Stalin: November 1939)
A. J. Liebling
Paris Postscript (Paris Before the Fall: May-June 1940)
Virginia Cowles
The Beginning of the End (Flight from Paris: June 1940)
John Fisher
I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque (With the Victorious German Army: June 1940)
Sonia Tomara
French Conceal Despair; Move as Automatons (French Capitulation: June 17, 1940)
William L. Shirer
“Revengeful, Triumphant Hate” (French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940)
Edward R. Murrow
Can They Take It? (The London Blitz: September 1940)
William L. Shirer
“The Hour Will Come When One of Us Will Break” (Berlin After a Year of War: September 1940)
Ernest R. Pope
Blitzkrieg Reporting (American Correspondents in Berlin: 1940)
Ernie Pyle
“This Dreadful Masterpiece” (London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940)
“Life Without Redemption” (Londoners in the Underground: January 1941)
C. L. Sulzberger
Retreat of Serbs Related by Writer (German Invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941)
Robert St. John
Under Fire (German Invasion of Greece: April 1941)
A. J. Liebling
“Remoteness from the War Affected Everybody” (A Witness to War Returns to America: 1940-41)
Otto D. Tolischus
The Way of Subjects (Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941)
Wes Gallagher
“See You in Lisbon” (Refugees in Flight from Central Europe: August 1941)
Otto D. Tolischus
Tokyo Army Aide Bids Japan Fight If Parleys Fail (Signs of Impending War with Japan: September 1941)
Margaret Bourke-White
Death and Life on the Battlefields (On the Russian Front: September 1941)
Howard K. Smith
Valhalla in Transition (Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941)
Robert Hagy
“The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years” (America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941)
New York Herald Tribune
President’s War Message (America Declares War: December 8, 1941)
Max Hill
“This Is For Keeps” (Roundup of American Reporters in Tokyo: December 1941)
Melville Jacoby
War Hits Manila (Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941)
Cecil Brown
“Prepare to Abandon Ship” (The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941)
Larry Lesueur
“Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow” (Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941)
Cecil Brown
Malay Jungle War (British Complacency in Malaya: December 1941)
Walter Bernstein
Juke Joint (Off Duty in Phenix City, Alabama: December 1941)
Raymond Clapper
“The Unexpected Couldn’t Happen” (Pearl Harbor Postmortem: January 1942)
E. B. White
“The Newspaper Reader Finds It Very Difficult to Get at the Truth” (Sugar-Coating the War News: February 1942)
Clark Lee
“Everybody Knew When the Planes Were Coming” (Corregidor: January-April 1942)
Annalee Jacoby
Bataan Nurses (Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942)
Jack Belden
The Fever of Defeat (Collapse of Allied Resistance in Burma: May 1942)
Flight Through the Jungle (Stilwell’s Retreat Through Burma: May 1942)
Helen Lawrenson
“Damn the Torpedoes!” (The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942)
Foster Hailey
The Battle of Midway (Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942)
Brendan Gill
X, B, and Chiefly A (The Home Front: Rationing, 1942)
Ted Nakashima
Concentration Camp: U.S. Style (The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942)
The New York Times
“A Vast Slaughterhouse” (Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942)
E. B. White
Bond Rally (Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942)
Richard Tregaskis
Battle of the Ridge (Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942)
John Hersey
The Battle of the River (Guadalcanal: October 7-9, 1942)
Walter Graebner
The Battle for Scoops (Foreign Correspondents in Moscow: October 1942)
J. Saunders Redding
A Negro Looks at This War (African-Americans and the War: An Argument for Support, 1942)
Roi Ottley
Negroes Are Saying. . . (African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942)
Edward R. Murrow
“A Horror Beyond What Imagination Can Grasp” (Report on Mass Murder: December 1942)
Margaret Bourke-White
Women in Lifeboats (Torpedoed and Rescued at Sea: December 22, 1942)
Ernie Pyle
The U.S. and Vichy in North Africa (Algeria: December 1942)
“Our Policy Is Still Appeasement”
“I Gather New Respect for Americans”
Mary Heaton Vorse
The Girls of Elkton, Maryland (Munitions Workers: 1943)
A. J. Liebling
The Foamy Fields (Air War in Tunisia: January 1943)
Ernie Pyle
The War in Tunisia (February-May 1943)
“Now It Is Killing That Animates Them”
“Moving at Night in Total Blackness”
“Only Slightly Above the Caveman Stage”
“Too Little to Work With, As Usual”
“Overrun Before They Knew What Was Happening”
“Nothing To Do”
“What a Tank Battle Looks Like”
“The Fantastic Surge of Caterpillar Metal”
“Into the Thick of Battle”
“Brave Men. Brave Men!”
“Little Boys Again, Lost in the Dark”
“The Greatest Damage Is Psychological”
“The God-Damned Infantry”
“When a Unit Stops to Rest”
“This Is Our War”
A. J. Liebling
Quest for Mollie (Uncovering a Soldier’s Story: Tunisia and the U.S., Spring-Summer 1943)
George S. Schuyler
“When American Citizens Murder U.S. Soldiers” (African-Americans and the War: Crimes Against Black G.I.‘s, 1943)
Robert Sherrod
The Japanese Mind (Aftermath of the Battle on Attu: June 1943)
Ernie Pyle
The Sicilian Campaign (July-August 1943)
“The Dying Man Was Left Utterly Alone”
“Damn Sick of War—and Deadly Tired”
“A Hell of a Job”
“Miracle Bridge”
John Hersey
This Is Democracy (American Military Administration in Sicily: August 1943)
Beirne Lay, Jr.
I Saw Regensburg Destroyed (B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943)
John Steinbeck
Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion (Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943)
Life Magazine/George Strock
Three Americans (Photograph of American War Dead: 1943)
William L. Shirer
The American Radio Traitors (Broadcasters for the Axis: 1943)
James Agee
So Proudly We Fail (American War Movies: 1943)
Deton J. Brooks, Jr.
Morale Sags at Camp Forrest as Jim Crow Rules (African-Americans and the War: A Southern Army Base, November 1943)
Edward Kennedy
Patton Struck Soldier in Hospital, Was Castigated by Eisenhower (The Patton Slapping Case: August-November 1943)
Richard Tregaskis
“Then I Got It” (American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943)
Robert Sherrod
from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle (The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943)
“I Didn’t Know Whether We Had the Heart to Fight a War”
View of the Carnage
“The Hard Facts of War”
Edward R. Murrow
“The Target Was To Be the Big City” (Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943)
Martha Gellhorn
The Price of Fire (Royal Air Force Burn Center: December 1943)
Ernie Pyle
The Italian Campaign: “Slow Progress” (December 1943-January 1944)
“The Land and the Weather Are Both Against Us”
“One Demolished Town After Another”
“Mule Packing Outfit”
“This One Is Captain Waskow”
Homer Bigart
San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Costs Americans Dearly (Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943)
Margaret Bourke-White
Over the Lines (Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943)
Vincent Tubbs
Christmas on New Guinea (African-American G.I.‘s in the Southwest Pacific: December 1943)
Gertrude Stein
“Tired of Winter Tired of War” (Occupied France: January-February 1944)
Walter Bernstein
I Love Mountain Warfare (Italy: January 1944)
Ernie Pyle
“Waiting for the Next Attack” (The Italian Campaign: February 1944)
“Those Lulls That Sometimes Come in War”
“The Night Was Full of Distant Warfare”
“A Certain Fundamental Appreciation for the Ridiculous”
“The Trail Was Never Straight”
Vincent Tubbs
“Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead” (The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944)
“No Picturesque Battle Scenes in SWP War”
“Homesick Joe in Pacific”
“Men Can’t Sleep; They Talk, Dream of Home”
Walter Bernstein
Search for a Battle (Italy: March 1944)
Ernie Pyle
“Perpetual Astonishments of a War Life” (The Italian Campaign: March 1944)
“A Life of Flying In Combat”
“Their Hunger Most Surely Was Genuine”
“Nobody Is Wholly Safe”
“You Just Lie in Your Foxhole”
“A Look I Dread to See”
The Editors of Fortune; drawing by Mine Okubo
Issei, Nisei, Kibei (Japanese-American Internment: 1944)
Homer Bigart
Cassino, Once Thriving, Is Turned Into a Scene of Unrelieved Grimness (May 1944)
Vincent Tubbs
Girl Thrills New Caledonia G.I.’s (USO Show, May 1944)
A. J. Liebling
Notes from the Kidnap House (French Underground Journalism: 1944)
Susan B. Anthony II
Working at the Navy Yard (Women in War Plants: 1944)
Vincent Tubbs
93rd Div. Patrol Kills 20 Japs, Escapes 3 Ambushes (Bougainville, May 1944)
I. F. Stone
For the Jews—Life or Death? (Jewish Refugees: June 1944)
A. J. Liebling
Cross-Channel Trip (The D-Day Invasion: June I-II, 1944)
Ernie Pyle
Omaha Beach (After D-Day: June 1944)
“And Yet We Got On”
“The Wreckage Was Vast and Startling”
“This Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish”
Martha Gellhorn
The First Hospital Ship (Normandy: June 1944)
S. J Perelman
Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl, and Stir (Wartime Advertising: 1944)
Robert Sherrod
Gone To Earth (Saipan: June 1944)
The Nature of the Enemy (Saipan: July 1944)
Lee Miller
U.S.A. Tent Hospital (Normandy: July 1944)
Ernie Pyle
Battle and Breakout in Normandy (July-August 1944)
“They Weren’t Heroic Figures”
“A Small Assembly Plant”
“The Heavy Ordnance Company”
“The Great Attack”
“A Ghastly Relentlessness”
“The Universe Became Filled with a Gigantic Rattling”
“Anybody Makes Mistakes”
“This Weird Hedgerow Fighting”
“Each One Is a Separate Little War”
“Nothing Left Behind But The Remains”
“Wounded and Trapped”
Bill Davidson
“Rommel—Count Your Men” (Siege of St. Malo: August 1944)
Lee Miller
The Siege of St. Malo (August 1944)
Ernest Hemingway
How We Came To Paris (August 1944)
Irwin Shaw
Morts pour la Patrie (The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944)
Helen Kirkpatrick
Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead (The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944)
W. H. Lawrence
Nazi Mass Killing Laid Bare in Camp (Maidanek: August 1944)
Ernie Pyle
A Last Word (France: August 1944)
Bill Mauldin
Up Front
Rupert Trimmingham and others
Democracy? (African-Americans and the War: 1944)
Brendan Gill
Young Man Behind Plexiglass (An American Bombardier: August 1944)
Martha Gellhorn
The Gothic Line (Northern Italy, September 1944)
Tom Lea
Peleliu Landing (Peleliu, September 1944)
Mack Morriss
My Old Outfit (Maastricht, September 1944)
William Walton
Now the Germans Are the Refugees (The Fall of Aachen: October 1944)
Peggy Hull Deuell
Death of Carrier Described (The Princeton: October 1944)
John H. Crider
U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps (Auschwitz: November 1944)
Mack Morriss
War in the Huertgen Forest (November 1944)
Eric Sevareid
The Price We Pay in Italy (November 1944)
Anne O’Hare McCormick
The Italian Ordeal Surprises Members of Congress (December 1944)
Ed Cunningham
The Battle of the Bulge (The Ardennes: December 1944–January 1945)
Jack Belden
Retreat in Belgium (The Ardennes: December 1944)
Martha Gellhorn
The Battle of the Bulge (The Road to Bastogne: December 1944)
Carl Mydans
“My God! It’s Carl Mydans” (Santos Tomas Prison Camp: Manila, February 1945)
John P. Marquand
Iwo Jima Before H-Hour (February 1945)
Robert Sherrod
The First Three Days (Iwo Jima: February 1945)
Howard Brodie
Jump-Off (Assault Across the Roer: February 1945)
Richard C. Hottelet
Big Jump into Germany (East of the Rhine: March 24, 1945)
James Agee
“These Terrible Records of War” (Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945)
Janet Flanner (Genet)
Letter from Cologne (March 1945)
Marguerite Higgins
Freed Captives Fill Roads That Lead to France (Germany, April 1945)
Martha Gellhorn
Das Deutsches Volk (Germans in Defeat, April 1945)
James Agee
“A Soldier Died Today” (The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945)
Edward R. Murrow
“For Most of It I Have No Words” (Buchenwald: April 15, 1945)
Evan Wylie
Ernie Pyle (Ie Shima, April 18, 1945)
Janet Flanner (Genet)
Letters from Paris (April 1945)
“Let Us Weep For This Man”
“A Sad Homecoming”
Martha Gellhorn
The Russians (Meeting at the Elbe: April 1945)
Virginia Irwin
“A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction” (The Russians in Berlin: April 1945)
Marguerite Higgins
33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army (April 29, 1945)
Martha Gellhorn
Dachau (May 1945)
Edward Kennedy
The War in Europe Is Ended! (May 7, 1945)
A. J. Liebling
The A.P. Surrender (The Press and the Military: May 1945)
Philip Hamburger
Letter from Rome (V-E Day: May 1945)
E. B. White
Beautiful Upon a Hill (The United Nations Conference: San Francisco, May 1945)
Phelps Adams
Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill (Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945)
Shelley Mydans
Guam Holdouts Give Out (Japanese Soldiers Surrender: Spring 1945)
William L. Laurence
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member (Nagasaki, August 9, 1945)
Homer Bigart
Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended (September 2, 1945)
A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can’t Believe It (September 3, 1945)
John Hersey
Hiroshima
Contributors

Phelps Adams
James Agee
Susan B. Anthony II
Jack Belden
Walter Bernstein
Homer Bigart
Margaret Bourke-White
Howard Brodie
Deton J. Brooks Jr.
Cecil Brown
Raymond Clapper
John H. Crider
Virginia Cowles
Ed Cunningham
Bill Davidson
Peggy Hull Deuell
Janet Flanner
Wes Gallagher
Martha Gellhorn
Brendan Gill
Walter Graebner
Foster Hailey
Philip Hamburger
Ernest Hemingway
John Hersey
Marguerite Higgins
Max Hill
Richard C. Hottelet
Virginia Irwin
Annalee Jacoby
Melville Jacoby
Edward Kennedy
Helen Kirkpatrick
William L. Laurence
W.H. Lawrence
Helen Lawrenson
Tom Lea
Beirne Lay Jr.
Clark Lee
Larry Lesueur
A. J. Liebling
Anne O’Hare McCormick
John P. Marquand
Bill Mauldin
Lee Miller
Mack Morriss
Edward R. Murrow
Carl Mydans
Shelly Mydans
Ted Nakashima
Miné Okubo
Roi Ottley
S. J. Perelman
Ernest R. Pope
Ernie Pyle
J. Saunders Redding
Robert St. John
Sigrid Schultz
George S. Schuyler
Eric Sevareid
Irwin Shaw
Vincent Sheean
Robert Sherrod
William L. Shirer
Howard K. Smith
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
I. F. Stone
C. L. Sulzberger
Dorothy Thompson
Otto D. Tolischus
Sonia Tomara
Richard Tregaskis
Vincent Tubbs
Mary Heaton Vorse
William Walton
E. B. White
Evan Wylie

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