04739nam 2200817Ia 450 991045161280332120211005020246.00-8232-4734-11-282-69873-797866126987360-8232-3749-40-8232-2677-81-4294-7912-410.1515/9780823237494(CKB)1000000000475237(EBL)476606(OCoLC)727645663(SSID)ssj0000125201(PQKBManifestationID)11143901(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125201(PQKBWorkID)10026440(PQKB)10001487(MiAaPQ)EBC3239412(OCoLC)213305704(MdBmJHUP)muse14955(DE-B1597)555334(DE-B1597)9780823237494(Au-PeEL)EBL3239412(CaPaEBR)ebr10197156(OCoLC)1099118646(MiAaPQ)EBC476606(Au-PeEL)EBL476606(EXLCZ)99100000000047523720060629d2006 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCombat reporter[electronic resource] Don Whitehead's World War II diary and memoirs /edited by John B. Romeiser1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20061 online resource (258 p.)World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ;12Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2675-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Editor’s Note and Acknowledgments --Foreword --Introduction --Part 1 From Manhattan to Cairo, September–October 1942 --Part 2 Cairo Journal, October–November 1942 --Part 3 In Pursuit of Rommel (Libya), November 1942–February 1943 --Part 4 Victory in Tunisia, March–April 1943 --Part 5 Sicily, July–August 1943 --AFTERWORD Command Sergeant Major Ben Franklin --APPENDIX --NOTES --INDEX“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead is one of the legendary reporters of World War II. For the Associated Press he covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in the recent Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism. From the fall of September 1942, as a freshly minted A.P. journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, Whitehead kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Back home later, Whitehead started, but never finished, a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat. John Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead’s memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a vivid, unvarnished, and completely riveting story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Here, Whitehead captures the fierce fighting in the African desert and Sicilian mountains, as well as rare insights into the daily grind of reporting from a war zone, where tedium alternated with terror. In the tradition of cartoonist Bill Mauldin’s memoir Up Front, Don Whitehead’s powerful self-portrait is destined to become an American classic.World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ;12.World War, 1939-1945CampaignsAfrica, NorthWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsItalySicilyWorld War, 1939-1945JournalistsDiariesWorld War, 1939-1945Personal narratives, AmericanWar correspondentsUnited StatesDiariesElectronic books.World War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945JournalistsWorld War, 1939-1945War correspondents940.54/1273092Whitehead Don1908-1981.1049223Romeiser John Beals1948-1049224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451612803321Combat reporter2478040UNINA