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Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Don Whitehead (Author), John B. Romeiser (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.
 
Legendary reporter Don Whitehead 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 Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism.
 
From September 1942, as a freshly minted Associated Press journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, he also kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Later, Whitehead started work on a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat that would remain unfinished.
 
In this book, John B. 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. These writings by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner offer a unique and up-close view of the Second World War—as well as a reminder of the risks journalist take to bring us the first draft of history.
 
“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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and twenty-first-century readers are the richer for it.” —from the foreword by Rick Atkinson
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0823226771
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Publisher
    Fordham University Press
  4. Publication date
    August 25, 2009
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
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Romeiser has done a skillful job in blending these absorbing accounts of one reporter's experiences during a critical campaign for America's inexperienced army. ― ―The Kentucky Register

The book never lets up on its trip into the heart of a strange and deadly nightmare. ― ―On Point

Whitehead's diary gives us a sense of his day-to-day thinking, unchanged by retrospection and polish. ― ―Journalism History

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The book never lets up on its trip into the heart of a strange and deadly nightmare. ― ―On Point

Romeiser has done a skillful job in blending these absorbing accounts of one reporter's experiences during a critical campaign for America's inexperienced army. ― ―The Kentucky Register

Whitehead's diary gives us a sense of his day-to-day thinking, unchanged by retrospection and polish. ― ―Journalism History

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004FPYKCK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fordham University Press; 1st edition (August 25, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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  • T. Carradine
    5.0 out of 5 stars a very accurate description of the North African and Sicily campaigns.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024
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    This reporter gave little details of his experiences that kept me interested. It would have been nice to read about the rest of his wartime experiences.
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  • Jean
    5.0 out of 5 stars Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead WWII diary and memoirs
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2011
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    I loved this book. Too many of us have forgotten or never knew what WWII was like. This helps to remind us. WWII was different from subsequent wars in that it spread so much farther over the globe. So many people lost so much.
    This book also shows us the character development of a young man just beginning to cover the actual fighting, his growth and change into a first-rate combat reporter, his longing for his family and his fervent desire to be on the frontlines as much as possible so that his reports were honest and compelling.
    These days we can sit in front of our television and watch people getting killed halfway around the world but in Don's time, the only way to know what was truly happening (as much as the censors would permit) was to send someone to the actual place.
    I knew Don Whitehead as a person but not as a combat reporter. This book was excellent, very well written and made me want to read the rest of Mr. Romeiser's books.
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