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Author Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958.

Title Soldier of the press : covering the front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943 / Henry T. Gorrell ; edited with an introduction by Kenneth Gorrell ; foreword by John C. McManus.

Publication Info. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Summary "This memoir by United Press war correspondent Henry T. Gorrell provides eyewitness accounts from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War and the war fronts in Greece, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during World War II"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- Little Caesar -- Civil War in Spain -- Prisoner of war -- The Simpson case -- The siege of Madrid -- Interlude : reflecting on events, 1936-1939 -- London : September 1939 -- Balkan powder keg -- Nadia of the Gestapo -- Lieutenant Bill Belle -- Hitler : "carry out plan number four!" -- Vichy treachery -- Taxi to Teheran -- Interlude : October 1941-May 1942 -- Malta convoy -- The retreat to Alamein -- Rommel hits a Stone Wall -- "The lull continues in the western desert"--BBC -- "Winnie" comes to Alamein -- "No retreat and no surrender"--Montgomery -- "Milk run" to Benghazi -- The bombing of Navarino bay -- The battle of Alamein -- Rommel packs up -- Benghazi's fall -- The Yanks bomb Naples -- The death of Private "X" -- The "ladies from hell" attack -- The fall of Tripoli -- Conclusion (but the war goes on).
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958.
Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958.
United Press Associations -- Employees -- Biography.
United Press Associations.
Employees.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958.
United Press Associations -- Biography -- Employees.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalism, Military -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War (1939-1945)
Genre/Form Personal narratives -- American.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists -- Biography.
Journalists.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Journalism, Military -- United States.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, American.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Journalists -- Biography.
War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
War correspondents.
United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1936-1943
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
Added Author Gorrell, Kenneth.
Other Form: Print version: Gorrell, Henry T., 1911-1958. Soldier of the press. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009 9780826218513 (DLC) 2009004261 (OCoLC)280545341
ISBN 9780826271792 (electronic book)
0826271790 (electronic book)
0826218512 (alkaline paper)
9780826218513 (alkaline paper)
9780826218513 (alkaline paper)