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Reporting War

How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II

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This “excellent, wonderfully-researched” chronicle of WWII journalism explores the lives and work of embedded reporters across every theater of war (Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London).
 
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In Reporting War, fellow foreign correspondent Ray Moseley mines their writings to create an exhilarating parallel narrative of the war effort in Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan. This vivid history also explores the lives, methods, and motivations of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies.
Moseley’s sweeping yet intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account of the war. Reporting War sheds much-needed light on an abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.
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    • Library Journal

      March 15, 2017

      Veteran European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune Moseley writes about the journalists who covered World War II. With chapters on geographic location and chronology, the book begins with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 and the first years in the European Theater, including astonishing accounts of the journalists who flew in dangerous missions over Germany. The narratives move on to Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Theater while also touching upon battles in North Africa and Russia. One of the most heart-wrenching chapters concerns the discovery of concentration camps as Germany is overrun by Allied and Russian troops. Throughout the war, journalists had to withstand harsh conditions, possible capture, torture, and even death. Moreover, the censorship they endured as they wrote their stories became increasingly frustrating as the war progressed. Moseley concludes with D-Day in 1944, the fall of Germany, and the surrender of Japan. VERDICT A thorough volume for journalism and World War II collections, and for readers interested in tales of bravery.--Jason L. Steagall, Gateway Technical Coll. Lib., Elkhorn, WI

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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