Reporting World War 2 [Paperback]

Samuel Hynes (Author), Anne Matthews (Author), Nancy Caldwell Sorel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 2001

In a time when public perceptions were shaped by the written and spoken word, war correspondents were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars. Here, for the first time in paperback, the work of more than 50 remarkable reporters has been drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books to capture the intensity of World War II's unfolding drama. This volume includes the work of Ernie Pyle, A. J. Liebling, E. B. White, William L. Shirer, John Steinbeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward R. Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, James Agee, John Hersey-whose Hiroshima appears in full-and many more. Also included are:

A detailed chronology (1933-1945)
Maps
Profiles of the journalists
Helpful notes
A glossary of military terms, and Notes on the texts

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About the Author

The Advisory Board for Reporting World War II includes Samuel Hynes and Anne Matthews, Princeton University, writer Nancy Caldwell Sorel, and Roger J. Spiller, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 874 pages
• Publisher: Library of America (May 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931082057
• ISBN-13: 978-1931082051
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reporting WW II, May 1, 2009

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The book is excellent. However, I would have liked to get the volume bound in series with the other LOA titles and the dust cover on it. This may be a minor quibble as the book is so far superior. I would like to get the book with the dust jacket showing Ed Murrow, which I was originally taken with when I borrowed the book from a library in Japan.
No big issue, though.

The product description shows the book with Murrow's picture (as pictured to the right), so I took it for granted that that was the way the book would arrive.