| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hitler unleashes the war -- War in Finland, Norway and Denmark -- The fall of France and the Low Countries -- The Battle of Britain and the air war on Germany -- The German Conquest of Greece and Yugoslavia -- Germany invades the Soviet Union -- Pearl Harbor -- Japan invades: the Philippines, Singapore, Burma -- Pacific Island campaigns -- The Desert War -- Stalingrad and Leningrad -- He battle for Italy -- D-Day landings in Normandy -- The Battle for France -- The liberation of Paris -- The Allies and Russians drive toward Germany -- Germany invaded -- The camps inside Germany -- The end of the war in Europe -- Final battles in the Pacific -- Victory over Japan -- After the war. |
| Summary |
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 this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in an exhilarating parallel narrative, the events across every theater-Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan-as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the acti. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Press coverage. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
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Journalists. |
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War correspondents -- History -- 20th century.
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War correspondents. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Radio broadcasting and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Mass media and the war.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
How foreign correspondents risked capture, torture, and death to cover World War II |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Moseley, Ray, 1932- Reporting war. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] 9780300224665 (DLC) 2016036163 (OCoLC)953985606 |
| ISBN |
9780300226348 (electronic book) |
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0300226349 (electronic book) |
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9780300224665 |
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0300224664 |
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