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A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings (Library of America)
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by A. J. Liebling and Pete Hamill
Sales Rank: 29833
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$22.88
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1100 pages
Published by: Library of America February 28, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1598530186
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1598530186
Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
“Quietly, wittily, and humanely, Liebling introduces the reader to the common men in and around battle, and because of that probably gives a truer picture of things than most books about war.”
—The Times (London)
Product Description
One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years reporting the dramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. As a correspondent for The New Yorker, Liebling wrote with a passionate commitment to Allied victory, an unfailing attention to telling details, and an appreciation for the literary challenges presented by the “discursive, centrifugal, both repetitive and disparate” nature of war. This volume brings together three books along with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerpts from The Republic of Silence (1947), Liebling’s collection of writing from the French Resistance.
The Road Back to Paris (1944) narrates Liebling’s experiences from September 1939 to March 1943, including his shock at the fall of France and dismay at isolationist indifference in the United States; it contains classic accounts of a winter voyage on a Norwegian tanker during the Battle of the Atlantic, visits to front-line airfields in North Africa, and the defeat of a veteran panzer division by American troops in Tunisia. Mollie and Other War Pieces (1964) brings together Liebling’s portrait of a legendary nonconformist American soldier in North Africa with his eyewitness account of Omaha Beach on D-Day, evocative reports from Normandy, and investigation of a German atrocity in rural France. In Normandy Revisited (1958) Liebling writes about his return to France in 1955 and recalls the joyous liberation of his beloved Paris while exploring with bittersweet perception how wartime experience is transformed into memory. The selection of uncollected New Yorker pieces includes a profile of an RAF ace, surveys of the French underground press, and an encounter with a captured collaborator in Brittany, as well as postwar reflections on battle fatigue, Ernie Pyle, and the writing of military history.
With maps and chronology.
Reader Reviews
I grew up in North Africa, son of a USAAF captain and a Danish mother. Of the dozens of histories I've read on the period, this of the best caliber. He exactly conveys the general atmosphere and chaos that predominates during conflict. In addition, he also revealed early on many of the failings of the political establishment in making decisions on how to conduct the war, and how they allowed their personal agendas to cause much unneeded suffering and actually prolonged the conflict. Five stars!
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