Reporting World War II

by Hynes, Samual

• ISBN13: 9781931082051
• ISBN10: 1931082057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Library of America

Summary

Includes the work of nearly ninety writers, including Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, A.J. Liebling, and Edward R. Murrow, capturing the urgency of events as they happened.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Stephen E. Ambrose
Introduction	xix
Samuel Hynes
``It's All Over''
William L. Shirer
The Munich Conference: September 1938	1	(3)
Aufenthalt in Rosenheim
Vincent Sheean
Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938	4	(5)
Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans
Otto D. Tolischus
The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939	9	(5)
Paris Postscript
A. J. Liebling
Paris Before the Fall: May 1940	14	(11)
The Beginning of the End
Virginia Cowles
Flight from Paris: June 1940	25	(10)
``Revengeful, Triumphant Hate''
William L. Shirer
French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940	35	(5)
Can They Take It?
Edward R. Murrow
The London Blitz: September 1940	40	(5)
``This Dreadful Masterpiece''
Ernie Pyle
London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940	45	(3)
Under Fire
Robert St. John
German Invasion of Greece: April 1941	48	(15)
The Way of Subjects
Otto D. Tolischus
Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941	63	(6)
Valhalla in Transition
Howard K. Smith
Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941	69	(25)
``The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years''
Robert Hagy
America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941	94	(5)
New York Herald Tribune: President's War Message
America Declares War: December 8, 1941	99	(2)
War Hits Manila
Melville Jacoby
Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941	101	(8)
``Prepare to Abandon Ship''
Cecil Brown
The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941	109	(6)
``Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow''
Larry Lesueur
Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941	115	(14)
Bataan Nurses
Annalee Jacoby
Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942	129	(4)
Flight Through the Jungle
Jack Belden
Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942	133	(13)
``Damn the Torpedoes!''
Helen Lawrenson
The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942	146	(7)
The Battle of Midway
Foster Hailey
Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942	153	(8)
Concentration Camp: U.S. Style
Ted Nakashima
The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942	161	(3)
The New York Times: ``A Vast Slaughterhouse''
Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942	164	(4)
Bond Rally
E. B. White
Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942	168	(6)
Battle of the Ridge
Richard Tregaskis
Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942	174	(37)
Negroes Are Saying
Roi Ottley
African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942	211	(19)
The Girls of Elkton, Maryland
Mary Heaton Vorse
Munitions Workers: 1943	230	(15)
The Foamy Fields
A. J. Liebling
Air War in Tunisia: January 1943	245	(43)
The War in Tunisia
Ernie Pyle
February-May 1943	288	(18)
I Saw Regensburg Destroyed
Beirne Lay, Jr.
B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943	306	(13)
Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion
John Steinbeck
Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943	319	(3)
``Then I Got It''
Richard Tregaskis
American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943	322	(11)
from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Robert Sherrod
The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943	333	(30)
``The Target Was To Be the Big City''
Edward R. Murrow
Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943	363	(8)
San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Cost Americans Dearly
Homer Bigart
Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943	371	(8)
Over the Lines
Margaret Bourke-White
Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943	379	(15)
``This One Is Captain Waskow''
Ernie Pyle
The Death of an Infantry Officer: Italy, January 1944	394	(3)
``Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead''
Vincent Tubbs
The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944	397	(10)
Search for a Battle
Walter Bernstein
Italy: March 1944	407	(14)
The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei
Japanese-American Internment: 1944	421	(24)
Working at the Navy Yard
Susan B. Anthony II
Women in War Plants: 1944	445	(7)
Omaha Beach After D-Day
Ernie Pyle
June 1944	452	(9)
Battle and Breakout in Normandy
Ernie Pyle
July-August 1944	461	(10)
The Siege of St. Malo
Lee Miller
``The War Wasn't Over in This Section'': St. Malo, August 1944	471	(15)
Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead
Helen Kirkpatrick
The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944	486	(4)
from Up Front
Bill Mauldin
``My Business Is Drawing'': A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44	490	(19)
Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy?
African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944	509	(4)
Young Man Behind Plexiglass
Brendan Gill
Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944	513	(16)
Peleliu Landing
Tom Lea
``War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing'': Peleliu, September 1944	529	(38)
Now the Germans Are the Refugees
William Walton
The Fall of Aachen: October 1944	567	(3)
U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps
John H. Crider
Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944	570	(7)
War in the Huertgen Forest
Mack Morriss
``A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green'': The Huertgen Forest, November 1944	577	(6)
The Battle of the Bulge
Martha Gellhorn
The Road to Bastogne: December 1944	583	(8)
The First Three Days
Robert Sherrod
Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945	591	(5)
Jump-Off
Howard Brodie
Assault Across the Roer: February 1945	596	(10)
``These Terrible Records of War''
James Agee
Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945	606	(2)
Letter from Cologne
Janet Flanner (Genet)
``A Model of Destruction'': Cologne, March 1945	608	(7)
Das Deutsches Volk
Martha Gellhorn
``We Were Never Nazis'': Germans in Defeat, April 1945	615	(8)
``A Soldier Died Today''
James Agee
The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945	623	(2)
``For Most of It I Have No Words''
Edward R. Murrow
Buchenwald: April 15, 1945	625	(5)
Ernie Pyle
Evan Wylie
The Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945	630	(3)
``A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction''
Virginia Irwin
The Russians in Berlin: April 1945	633	(11)
The War in Europe Is Ended!
Edward Kennedy
The German Surrender: May 7, 1945	644	(2)
The A.P. Surrender
A. J. Liebling
The Press and the Military: May 1945	646	(10)
Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill
Phelps Adams
Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945	656	(7)
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member
William L. Laurence
``A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire'': Nagasaki, August 9, 1945	663	(10)
Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended
Homer Bigart
The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945	673	(2)
A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It
Homer Bigart
A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945	675	(6)
Hiroshima
John Hersey
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946	681	(78)
Chronology, 1933-1945	759	(36)
Maps	795	(17)
Biographical Notes	812	(16)
Note on the Texts	828	(4)
Acknowledgments	832	(3)
Notes	835	(19)
Glossary of Military Terms	854	(9)
Index	863