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Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46 (Library of America)
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by Library of America, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel, and Roger J. Spiller
Sales Rank: 289113
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 970 pages
Published by: Library of AmericaEdition: 1st Edition September 1, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1883011051
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1883011055
Book Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
From School Library Journal
YA?A vast kaleidoscope of impressions in over 145 different articles and excerpts from books (including Bill Mauldin's Up Front and John Hersey's Hiroshima). Students seeking information on The Munich Conference can read selections by William L. Shirer and Dorothy Thompson; they can learn about the London Blitz from Edward R. Murrow; and about rescue at sea from Margaret Bourke-White. They will find Ernie Pyle, A.J. Liebling, or Roi Ottley among these multiple short, readable, primary-source selections. Journalism and history students can track both the war and American attitudes through these narratives.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
With 1995 marking the 50th anniversary of the close of World War II, countless volumes are being produced by numerous publishers. This duo from the ageless Library of America takes a different tack as it approaches the war through the eyes of the reporters and photographers who first delivered its harsh images from the front lines of the jungles, beachheads, and ravaged villages to the American public, often at great personal peril. The text is an amalgam of hard news dispatches, letters, and articles from writers as far-ranging as Ernie Pyle, Bill Mauldin, John Hersey, Edward R. Murrow, and Martha Gellhorn to John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein. Together they impart not only the where and when of events but the emotional toll of war as well. With the advent of television, this is also an archive of a brand of journalism unfortunately long gone. The volumes include 64 pages of photographs and more than 200 cartoons, drawings, and maps. The Library of America has outdone itself with this set; Reporting World War II is quite simply outstanding. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries.?Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
As I noted in my comments on Volume 1 of this set, the living memory of the events and times of the Second World War are, sadly, leaving us rapidly. It is wonderful to have this collection of reporting from those years. Too often, people remember their history from Hollywood movies, where everything is glorious, simple, and victory is assured in the end. In real life, there is chaos, a determination to endure, but victory is not known until it is finally attained. This volume picks up in Italy during 1944 and ends with victory in the Pacific and the aftermath of Hiroshima. There are articles on the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, the death of F.D.R, the death of Ernie Pyle in the Pacific from a sniper's bullet, the German surrender, and dozens more. One of the most touching is an extended piece on the Japanese Internment camps with pen and ink drawings by one of the Japanese. Bill Mauldin also has a piece in here with his famous WWII cartoons of the GIs at the front. William Laurence gives a famous account of the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. There is a section of fine photos of the reporters included and others in the text including some aerial shots from a bomber's point of view. This first volume ends with the Mountain Campaign in Italy in 1944. The volume also supplies a short, but full chronology of the war, some excellent maps, biographies of the journalists, acknowledgements, notes on the texts, and a glossary of military terms. This, together with the first volume, is a collection of important history you will want to have on your shelf. Tremendous.
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