Screen LibraryReporting war : how foreign correspondents risked capture, torture, and death to cover World War II /
Journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journa...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in parallel narrative, the events across every theater--Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan--as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while emb |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-395) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300224665 (hardback ; alkaline paper) : 0300224664 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | D798 |
| CLC: |
K104 G212.1 K152 |
| Call Number: | K152/M898 |
| Contents: | Hitler unleashes the war -- War in Finland, Norway and Denmark -- The fall of France and the Low Countries -- The Battle of Britain and the air war on Germany -- The German Conquest of Greece and Yugoslavia -- Germany invades the Soviet Union -- Pearl Harbor -- Japan invades: the Philippines, Singapore, Burma -- Pacific Island campaigns -- The Desert War -- Stalingrad and Leningrad -- He battle for Italy -- D-Day landings in Normandy -- The Battle for France -- The liberation of Paris -- The Allies and Russians drive toward Germany -- Germany invaded -- The camps inside Germany -- The end of |