Combat Reporter - Don Whitehead''s World War II Diary and Memoirs

Informationen zum Autor Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel , won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story . John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942-1945 (Fordham). Klappentext "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 this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."-from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson Zusammenfassung 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.

A propos de l'auteur

Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel, won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story.
John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942-1945 (Fordham).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Beals (EDT) Romeiser, Don Whitehead, Don Franklin Whitehead, WHITEHEAD DON
• Collaboration: RICK ATKINSON (Editeur), John B Romeiser (Editeur), John B. Romeiser (Editeur)
• Edition: Fordham University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.09.2006
• EAN: 9780823226757
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2675-7
• Pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Thèmes: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; World War II: The Global, Huma; World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; World War II: The Global, Huma
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Journalisme