Combat Reporter : Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs / edited by John B. Romeiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehead, Don, Author.

Contributor:

Romeiser, John Beals, 1948- editor.

Series:

World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.

World War II: the Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Don, 1908-1981.

Whitehead, Don.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy--Sicily.

World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Diaries.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

War correspondents--United States--Diaries.

War correspondents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

“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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Winner of two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 The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now.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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-4734-1

1-282-69873-7

9786612698736

0-8232-3749-4

0-8232-2677-8

1-4294-7912-4

OCLC:

727645663