Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946: A Library of America Paperback Classic

by Samuel Hynes (Compiler), Anne Matthews (Compiler), Nancy Caldwell Sorel (Compiler), Roger J. Spiller (Compiler)

Overview

Drawn from wartime newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and books, Reporting World War II captures the unfolding drama through the work of more than 50 writers, the best of a remarkable generation of reporters. Here are William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes. Margaret Bourke-White flies over the lines in Italy; Robert Sherrod and Tom Lea record the horrors of the Pacific war; Janet Flanner and Martha Gellhorn examine a defeated Germany. On the homefront, E. B. White visits a bond rally, James Agee reviews newsreels, and Roi Ottley exposes racism in the military. Included in full is Hiroshima, John Hersey's classic account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931082051
Publisher:	Library of America
Publication date:	05/07/2001
Series:	Library of America Series
Pages:	970
Sales rank:	314,401
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.45(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University. He was a Marines Corps pilot in World War II and the Korean Conflict.

Anne Matthews has served on the faculties of Princeton, Columbia, and New York University, and she was the first woman to direct the Princeton Writing Program.

Nancy Caldwell Sorel (1934-2015) was the author of The Women Who Wrote the War, among other works.

Roger J. Spiller is George C. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Military History (retired) at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xv
	Introduction	xix
	William L. Shirer: "It's All Over" - The Munich Conference: September 1938	1
	Vincent Sheean: Aufenthalt in Rosenheim - Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938	4
	Otto D. Tolischus: Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans - The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939	9
	A. J. Liebling: Paris Postscript - Paris Before the Fall: May 1940	14
	Virginia Cowles: The Beginning of the End - Flight from Paris: June 1940	25
	William L. Shirer: "Revengeful, Triumphant Hate" - French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940	35
	Edward R. Murrow: Can They Take It? - The London Blitz: September 1940	40
	Ernie Pyle: "This Dreadful Masterpiece" - London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940	45
	Robert St. John: Under Fire - German Invasion of Greece: April 1941	48
	Otto D. Tolischus: The Way of Subjects - Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941	63
	Howard K. Smith: Valhalla in Transition - Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941	69
	Robert Hagy: "The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years" - America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941	94
	New York Herald Tribune: President's War Message - America Declares War: December 8, 1941	99
	Melville Jacoby: War Hits Manila - Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941	101
	Cecil Brown: "Prepare to Abandon Ship" - The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941	109
	Larry Lesueur: "Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow" - Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941	115
	Annalee Jacoby: Bataan Nurses - Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942	129
	Jack Belden: Flight Through the Jungle - Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942	133
	Helen Lawrenson: "Damn the Torpedoes!" - The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942	146
	Foster Hailey: The Battle of Midway - Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942	153
	Ted Nakashima: Concentration Camp: U.S. Style - The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942	161
	The New York Times: "A Vast Slaughterhouse" - Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942	164
	E. B. White: Bond Rally - Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942	168
	Richard Tregaskis: Battle of the Ridge - Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942	174
	Roi Ottley: Negroes Are Saying - African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942	211
	Mary Heaton Vorse: The Girls of Elkton, Maryland - Munitions Workers: 1943	230
	A. J. Liebling: The Foamy Fields - Air War in Tunisia: January 1943	245
	Ernie Pyle: The War in Tunisia - February-May 1943	288
	Beirne Lay, Jr.: I Saw Regensburg Destroyed - B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943	306
	John Steinbeck: Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion - Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943	319
	Richard Tregaskis: "Then I Got It" - American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943	322
	Robert Sherrod: from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle - The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943	333
	Edward R. Murrow: "The Target Was To Be the Big City" - Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943	363
	Homer Bigart: San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Cost Americans Dearly - Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943	371
	Margaret Bourke-White: Over the Lines - Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943	379
	Ernie Pyle: "This One Is Captain Waskow" - The Death of an Infantry Officer: Italy, January 1944	394
	Vincent Tubbs: "Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead" - The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944	397
	Walter Bernstein: Search for a Battle - Italy: March 1944	407
	The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei - Japanese-American Internment: 1944	421
	Susan B. Anthony II: Working at the Navy Yard - Women in War Plants: 1944	445
	Ernie Pyle: Omaha Beach After D-Day - June 1944	452
	Ernie Pyle: Battle and Breakout in Normandy - July-August 1944	461
	Lee Miller: The Siege of St. Malo - "The War Wasn't Over in This Section": St. Malo, August 1944	471
	Helen Kirkpatrick: Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead - The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944	486
	Bill Mauldin: from Up Front - "My Business Is Drawing": A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44	490
	Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy? - African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944	509
	Brendan Gill: Young Man Behind Plexiglass - Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944	513
	Tom Lea: Peleliu Landing - "War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing": Peleliu, September 1944	529
	William Walton: Now the Germans Are the Refugees - The Fall of Aachen: October 1944	567
	John H. Crider: U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps - Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944	570
	Mack Morriss: War in the Huertgen Forest - "A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green": The Huertgen Forest, November 1944	577
	Martha Gellhorn: The Battle of the Bulge - The Road to Bastogne: December 1944	583
	Robert Sherrod: The First Three Days - Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945	591
	Howard Brodie: Jump-Off - Assault Across the Roer: February 1945	596
	James Agee: "These Terrible Records of War" - Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945	606
	Janet Flanner (Genet): Letter from Cologne - "A Model of Destruction": Cologne, March 1945	608
	Martha Gellhorn: Das Deutsches Volk - "We Were Never Nazis": Germans in Defeat, April 1945	615
	James Agee: "A Soldier Died Today" - The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945	623
	Edward R. Murrow: "For Most of It I Have No Words" - Buchenwald: April 15, 1945	625
	Evan Wylie: Ernie Pyle - The Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945	630
	Virginia Irwin: "A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction" - The Russians in Berlin: April 1945	633
	Edward Kennedy: The War in Europe Is Ended! - The German Surrender: May 7, 1945	644
	A. J. Liebling: The A.P. Surrender - The Press and the Military: May 1945	646
	Phelps Adams: Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill - Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945	656
	William L. Laurence: Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member - "A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire": Nagasaki, August 9, 1945	663
	Homer Bigart: Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended - The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945	673
	Homer Bigart: A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It - A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945	675
	John Hersey: Hiroshima - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946	681
	Chronology, 1933-1945	759
	Maps	795
	Biographical Notes	812
	Note on the Texts	828
	Acknowledgments	832
	Notes	835
	Glossary of Military Terms	854
	Index	863

Editorial Reviews

"A treasure." —David Remnick, The New Yorker

"Magnificent. . . . An incomparable collective portrait." —American Heritage

From the Publisher

Can we praise this anthology enough? The table of contents should convince the most war-weary reader, with contributors including A. J. Liebling, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward R. Murrow, James Agee, Lee Miller, Homer Bigart, and John Hersey. Seven hundred and seventy-four pages of journalism verging on literature.