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Combat Reporter - Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs (Hardcover)
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Combat Reporter - Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs (Hardcover)
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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"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deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir,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and it has remained unpublished until now.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.
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