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Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946 Paperback – May 7, 2001

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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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Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University. He was a Marines Corps pilot in World War II and the Korean Conflict.

Anne Matthews has served on the faculties of Princeton, Columbia, and New York University, and she was the first woman to direct the Princeton Writing Program.

Nancy Caldwell Sorel (1934-2015) was the author of The Women Who Wrote the War, among other works.

Roger J. Spiller is George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Military History (retired) at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Paperback: 874 pages
Publisher: Library of America (May 7, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1931082057
ISBN-13: 978-1931082051
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It is a wonderful book that encompasses multiple media types that cover a ...

ByCpronzatoon April 4, 2015

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Pieces of writing during World War II are placed into this book, including broadcast. It is a wonderful book that encompasses multiple media types that cover a wide range of topics during the second World War. It is great because it includes pieces on women working during the war, how soldiers dealt psychologically during the war and also had pieces focusing on the destruction of war. Required for my class, but a keeper.

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Excellent Collection, Good Jumping-Off Point for Further Reading

ByQuinbuson November 24, 2015

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An excellent collection of reportage from the war. Valuable primary sources. Readers can sample the work of many correspondents and pursue what interests them -- sources are well documented. Maps, references, etc. Would make excellent required reading for a quick history course.

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Reporting WW II

ByDavid Weinbergon 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.

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Fascinating

ByM. Swantonon December 13, 2012

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I wish journalists still wrote like this. Beautiful writing during a horrifying time makes for one of the best World War 2 books around.

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A moving story for Memorial Day

ByRobert C RossTOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon May 24, 2015

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This excellent collection of American writing on World War II is constantly informative and often very moving. One such is a Memorial Day special, which the Library is offering free to all comers. The introduction follows:

Death of a Carrier
Peggy Hull Deuell (1889–1967)
From Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946

During the months after the United States entered World War II, Japanese forces quickly surrounded and captured strategic locations in and around the Philippines. On March 11, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur, commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, abandoned the American headquarters on Corregidor Island (at the entrance of Manila Bay) and, with his family and selected staff members on four PT boats, broke through the Japanese blockade and escaped to Australia. It was there he gave a brief speech which ended in the famous phrase, “I shall return.”

Thirty-one months would pass before MacArthur was able to fulfill his promise. On October 17, 1944, a force of over two hundred American warships appeared off the Philippines; in response, the Japanese readied sixty-four ships—virtually its entire fleet. The U.S. began its invasion on October 20 with a landing on Leyte, an island in the center of the Philippine archipelago. Over the next week forces prepared for and waged the complex series of air, submarine, and surface engagements known collectively as the Battle of Leyte Gulf (or the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea). Japanese losses were heavy—at least 12,000 dead and twenty-five vessels—while the American forces lost six ships and suffered nearly 3,000 casualties. During this battle, on October 25, the Japanese employed for the first time mass suicide attacks (“kamikaze”) by aircraft, a lethal but ultimately futile tactic that continued in the months ahead.

“The Battle of Leyte Gulf drove a stake into the empire, splitting off Tokyo’s Southeast Asian holdings from Japan proper,” concludes the writer of a recent magazine article. “And it furnished U.S. commanders a launching pad for sea and air assaults against the Ryukyu Islands and the Japanese home islands.” Not only was the multi-day engagement one of the last major naval battles of the war, but it is universally regarded as the largest naval battle in history.

One of the American ships sunk during the battle was the aircraft carrier USS Princeton; 108 men aboard lost their lives, and the secondary explosions killed another 233 on the nearby Birmingham, which had been putting out the fires. Peggy Hull Deuell interviewed survivors and filed her story on the tragedy from an unidentified naval base.

Deuell was a veteran journalist whose first war report, nearly three decades earlier, detailed the pursuit of Pancho Villa by U.S. troops in Mexico. She went to France to cover World War I, but was forced to leave when the United States refused to accredit her—or any other woman—as a war correspondent. Upon returning to Washington, she persisted, using connections from her days in Mexico, and was allowed to report on American military intervention in Siberia in 1918. Fourteen years later she filed eyewitness accounts of the brutal Japanese attack on Shanghai. She returned to Asia in 1943 to cover the Pacific theater of the war for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her dispatches were celebrated for featuring the heroic and tragic stories of individual soldiers and officers. “You will never realize what those yarns of yours did to this gang,” wrote one G.I. at the time. “You made them know they weren't forgotten.”

Her story appears at: loa.org/images/pdf/Deuell-Princeton.pdf

Robert C. Ross
May 2015 (Memorial Day)

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Indispensable

Bykeithjohnsonon December 23, 2013

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This book is an absolute treasure. For somebody who's pretty well-versed in WWII history, it offers a great contemporaneous look at how events played out at the time. It's not just the battlefield reporting, though those are excellent. The news from the home front is equally fascinating, whether the internment camps or how young women changed the workforce and small towns across America.

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