Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling

Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling

Gay, Timothy M.

Editorial Nal
Fecha de edición mayo 2012 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780451236883
528 páginas
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Resumen del libro

They worked on the front lines so they could write the headlines of World War II.

Amidst the bombs, bullets, and blood of World War II, those who reported on the war were not spared by the enemy. Assignment to Hell tells the compelling true stories of five war correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle who witnessed the war against Hitler's forces firsthand, from the deserts of Africa to the war-torn fields of Europe.
Together, they placed themselves in the line of fire, all the while filling newspapers and magazines on the home front with their unique, unforgettable prose. This is a vivid, exciting tribute to five men who forged an image of the American fighting man for an entire generation while living the lives and facing the same dangers of the soldiers they covered.

Timothy M. Gay is the author of Satch, Dizzy, x{0026} Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball before Jackie Robinson. His essays and op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other publications. He lives in Virginia with his wife and children.

"Assignment to Hell is a book every modern journalist-and citizen-should read. The 'assignment' is World War II, the largest event in the history of mankind, a war unlike any other before or since. The men who covered it on the front lines, in the air and at sea were beyond brave and resourceful-and great company for each other. Those legendary journalists, Cronkite and Rooney among them, were the eyes and ears of a nation depending on them for stories that instructed, inspired and entertained. I salute them all."
"Assignment to Hell is racy reading-full of back stories, private lives, booze and gossip about generals, reporters and news organizations. It is also an important book, telling how five men became writers of the first draft of the history of World War II. A free press never had better allies, and Americans who prize democracy should know them, warts and all. Their kind of work keeps dictatorships at bay."
"If one can say that reading a book titled Assignment to Hell was a delight, I say it now. The stories are so vivid and alive all these years later that I felt I was there with the legendary correspondents of World War II as they wrote their way from France to Germany."
"Tim Gay brilliantly tells the tale of five of the greatest reporters of World War II chasing the biggest story of their lives, filing the first draft of history with their newspapers while writing letters home to wives and girlfriends with the first version of lifelong family lore."
"Timothy Gay is a gifted, perceptive writer who succeeds in deftly weaving together journalism and military history. Assignment to Hell is a poignant human story that will move you deeply."
"World War II was also fought by a free press. Assignment to Hell is a worthy story about great and adventurous reporters, my father among them, who flew in the bombers, jumped with parachutes, and ducked into foxholes to report news of the war home to America."




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