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Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946 (paperback)

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Drawn from wartime newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and books, Reporting World War II captures the unfolding drama through the work of more than 50 writers, the best of a remarkable generation of reporters. Here are 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 of the Pacific war; 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. Included in full is Hiroshima, John Hersey’s classic account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath.

With a new preface by Stephen E. Ambrose and an introduction by Samuel Hynes, this paperback is a compendium edition of the critically acclaimed two-volume hardcover edition of Reporting World War II.

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.

This paperback edition has been printed on acid-free paper.
Table of Contents

Preface, Stephen E. Ambrose
Introduction, Samuel Hynes

William L. Shirer
“It’s All Over” (The Munich Conference: September 1938)
Vincent Sheean
Aufenthalt in Rosenheim (Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938)
Otto D. Tolischus
Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans (The Fall of Poland: September 28, 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)
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)
Ernie Pyle
“This Dreadful Masterpiece” (London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940)
Robert St. John
Under Fire (German Invasion of Greece: April 1941)
Otto D. Tolischus
The Way of Subjects (Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 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)
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)
Annalee Jacoby
Bataan Nurses (Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942)
Jack Belden
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)
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)
Roi Ottley
Negroes Are Saying. . . (African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942)
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)
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)
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)
Edward R. Murrow
“The Target Was To Be the Big City” (Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943)
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)
Ernie Pyle
“This One Is Captain Waskow” (January 1944)
Vincent Tubbs
“Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead” (The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944)
Walter Bernstein
Search for a Battle (Italy: March 1944)
The Editors of Fortune; drawings by Mine Okubo
Issei, Nisei, Kibei (Japanese-American Internment: 1944)
Susan B. Anthony II
Working at the Navy Yard (Women in War Plants: 1944)
Ernie Pyle
Omaha Beach (After D-Day: June 1944)
Battle and Breakout in Normandy (July-August 1944)
Lee Miller
The Siege of St. Malo (August 1944)
Helen Kirkpatrick
Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead (The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944)
Bill Mauldin
from Up Front (A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44)
Rupert Trimmingham and others
Democracy? (African-Americans and the War: 1944)
Brendan Gill
Young Man Behind Plexiglass (An American Bombardier: August 1944)
Tom Lea
Peleliu Landing (Peleliu, September 1944)
William Walton
Now the Germans Are the Refugees (The Fall of Aachen: 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)
Martha Gellhorn
The Battle of the Bulge (The Road to Bastogne: December 1944)
Robert Sherrod
The First Three Days (Iwo Jima: February 1945)
Howard Brodie
Jump-Off (Assault Across the Roer: February 1945)
James Agee
“These Terrible Records of War” (Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945)
Janet Flanner [Genet]
Letter from Cologne (March 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)
Virginia Irwin
“A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction” (The Russians in Berlin: April 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)
Phelps Adams
Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill (Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 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
Stephen E. Ambrose
Susan B. Anthony II
Jack Belden
Walter Bernstein
Homer Bigart
Margaret Bourke-White
Howard Brodie
Cecil Brown
Virginia Cowles
John H. Crider
Janet Flanner [Genêt]
Martha Gellhorn
Brendan Gill
Robert Hagy
Foster Hailey
John Hersey
Samuel Hynes
Virginia Irwin
Annalee Jacoby
Melville Jacoby
Edward Kennedy
Helen Kirkpatrick
William L. Laurence
Helen Lawrenson
Beirne Lay, Jr.
Tom Lea
Larry Lesueur
A. J. Liebling
Bill Mauldin
Lee Miller
Mack Morriss
Edward R. Murrow
Ted Nakashima
Mine Okubo
Roi Ottley
Ernie Pyle
Robert St. John
Vincent Sheean
Robert Sherrod
William L. Shirer
Howard K. Smith
John Steinbeck
Otto D. Tolischus
Vincent Tubbs
Richard Tregaskis
Rupert Trimmingham
Mary Heaton Vorse
William Walton
E. B. White
Evan Wylie

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