Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1944

by Library, Of America

• ISBN13: 9781883011048
• ISBN10: 1883011043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

This unique 50th anniversary collection recaptures the century's greatest cataclysm and the brilliant generation of American journalists who reported it--nearly 90 writers, the best of a remarkable generation whose talent, sense of purpose, and physical courage remain unsurpassed in the annals of war reporting. Includes a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, a glossary of military terms, and photos and illustrations.

Table of Contents

``It's All Over''
William L. Shirer
The Munich Conference: September 1938	1	(3)
``Peace''---And the Crisis Begins
Dorothy Thompson
Germany Occupies the Sudetenland: October 1, 1938	4	(4)
Aufenthalt in Rosenheim
Vincent Sheean
Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938	8	(5)
Hitler Seizes 20,000 Jews
Sigrid Schultz
Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938	13	(6)
``At Dawn This Morning Hitler Moved Against Poland''
William L. Shirer
The War Begins: September 1--3, 1939	19	(5)
Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans
Otto D. Tolischus
The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939	24	(5)
Nazi-Red Animosity Described Along Tense Frontier Border in Poland
Sonia Tomara
Poland Caught Between Hitler and Stalin: November 1939	29	(3)
Paris Postscript
A. J. Liebling
Paris Before the Fall: May--June 1940	32	(21)
The Beginning of the End
Virginia Cowles
Flight from Paris: June 1940	53	(10)
I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque
John Fisher
With the Victorious German Army: June 1940	63	(7)
French Conceal Despair; Move as Automatons
Sonia Tomara
French Capitulation: June 17, 1940	70	(2)
``Revengeful, Triumphant Hate''
William L. Shirer
French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940	72	(5)
Can They Take It?
Edward R. Murrow
The London Blitz: September 1940	77	(27)
``The Hour Will Come When One of Us Will Break''
William L. Shirer
Berlin After a Year of War: September 1940	104	(35)
Blitzkrieg Reporting
Ernest R. Pope
American Correspondents in Berlin: 1940	139	(8)
``This Dreadful Masterpiece''
Ernie Pyle
London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940	147	(3)
``Life Without Redemption''
Ernie Pyle
Londoners in the Underground: January 1941	150	(3)
Retreat of Serbs Related by Writer
C. L. Sulzberger
German Invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941	153	(5)
Under Fire
Robert St. John
German Invasion of Greece: April 1941	158	(15)
``Remoteness from the War Affected Everybody''
A. J. Liebling
A Witness to War Returns to America: 1940--41	173	(11)
The Way of Subjects
Otto D. Tolischus
Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941	184	(6)
``See You in Lisbon''
Wes Gallagher
Refugees in Flight from Central Europe: August 1941	190	(3)
Tokyo Army Aide Bids Japan Fight If Parleys Fail
Otto D. Tolischus
Signs of Impending War with Japan: September 1941	193	(3)
Death and Life on the Battlefields
Margaret Bourke-White
On the Russian Front: September 1941	196	(15)
Valhalla in Transition
Howard K. Smith
Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941	211	(25)
``The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years''
Robert Hagy
America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941	236	(5)
President's War Message
New York Herald Tribune
America Declares War: December 8, 1941	241	(2)
``This Is For Keeps''
Max Hill
Roundup of American Reporters in Tokyo: December 1941	243	(9)
War Hits Manila
Melville Jacoby
Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8--28, 1941	252	(8)
``Prepare to Abandon Ship''
Cecil Brown
The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941	260	(6)
``Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow''
Larry Lesueur
Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941	266	(14)
Malay Jungle War
Cecil Brown
British Complacency in Malaya: December 1941	280	(9)
Juke Joint
Walter Bernstein
Off Duty in Phenix City, Alabama: December 1941	289	(9)
``The Unexpected Couldn't Happen''
Raymond Clapper
Pearl Harbor Postmortem: January 1942	298	(2)
``The Newspaper Reader Finds It Very Difficult to Get at the Truth''
E. B. White
Sugar-Coating the War News: February 1942	300	(3)
``Everybody Knew When the Planes Were Coming''
Clark Lee
Corregidor: January--April 1942	303	(5)
Bataan Nurses
Annalee Jacoby
Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942	308	(4)
The Fever of Defeat
Jack Belden
Collapse of Allied Resistance in Burma: May 1942	312	(4)
Flight Through the Jungle
Jack Belden
Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942	316	(13)
``Damn the Torpedoes!''
Helen Lawrenson
The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942	329	(7)
The Battle of Midway
Foster Hailey
Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942	336	(8)
X, B, and Chiefly A
Brendan Gill
The Home Front: Rationing, 1942	344	(8)
Concentration Camp: U.S. Style
Ted Nakashima
The Internment of Japanese--Americans: 1942	352	(3)
The New York Times. ``A Vast Slaughterhouse''
Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942	355	(4)
Bond Rally
E. B. White
Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942	359	(6)
Battle of the Ridge
Richard Tregaskis
Guadalcanal: September 7--24, 1942	365	(37)
The Battle of the River
John Hersey
Guadalcanal: October 7--9, 1942	402	(18)
The Battle for Scoops
Walter Graebner
Foreign Correspondents in Moscow: October 1942	420	(6)
A Negro Looks at This War
J. Saunders Redding
African-Americans and the War: An Argument for Support, 1942	426	(8)
Negroes Are Saying
Roi Ottley
African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942	434	(19)
``A Horror Beyond What Imagination Can Grasp''
Edward R. Murrow
Report on Mass Murder: December 1942	453	(3)
Women in Lifeboats
Margaret Bourke-White
Torpedoed and Rescued at Sea: December 22, 1942	456	(9)
The U.S. and Vichy in North Africa
Ernie Pyle
Algeria: December 1942
``Our Policy Is Still Appeasement''	465	(2)
``I Gather New Respect for Americans''	467	(4)
The Girls of Elkton, Maryland
Mary Heaton Vorse
Munitions Workers: 1943	471	(15)
The Foamy Fields
A. J. Liebling
Air War in Tunisia: January 1943	486	(43)
The War in Tunisia
Ernie Pyle
February--May 1943
``Now It is Killing That Animates Them''	529	(2)
``Moving at Night in Total Blackness''	531	(3)
``Only Slightly Above the Caveman Stage''	534	(2)
``Too Little to Work With, As Usual''	536	(2)
``Overrun Before They Knew What Was Happening''	538	(2)
``Nothing To Do''	540	(2)
``What a Tank Battle Looks Like''	542	(2)
``The Fantastic Surge of Caterpillar Metal''	544	(2)
``Into the Thick of Battle''	546	(3)
``Brave Men. Brave Men!''	549	(2)
``Little Boys Again, Lost in the Dark''	551	(2)
``The Greatest Damage Is Psychological''	553	(2)
``The God-Damned Infantry''	555	(2)
``When a Unit Stops to Rest''	557	(3)
``This Is Our War''	560	(10)
Quest for Mollie
A. J. Liebling
Uncovering a Soldier's Story: Tunisia and the U.S., Spring-Summer 1943	570	(28)
``When American Citizens Murder U.S. Soldiers''
George S. Schuyler
African-Americans and the War: Crimes Against Black G.I.'s, 1943	598	(3)
The Japanese Mind
Robert Sherrod
Aftermath of the Battle on Attu: June 1943	601	(5)
The Sicilian Campaign
Ernie Pyle
July--August 1943
``The Dying Man Was Left Utterly Alone''	606	(2)
``Damn Sick of War---and Deadly Tired''	608	(2)
``A Hell of a Job''	610	(2)
``Miracle Bridge''	612	(3)
This Is Democracy
John Hersey
American Military Administration in Sicily: August 1943	615	(8)
I Saw Regensburg Destroyed
Beirne Lay
B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943	623	(13)
Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion
John Steinbeck
Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943	636	(3)
Life Magazine/George Strock: Three Americans
Photograph of American War Dead: 1943	639	(5)
The American Radio Traitors
William L. Shirer
Broadcasters for the Axis: 1943	644	(14)
So Proudly We Fail
James Agee
American War Movies: 1943	658	(4)
Morale Sags at Camp Forrest as Jim Crow Rules
Deton J. Brooks
African-Americans and the War: A Southern Army Base, November 1943	662	(3)
Patton Struck Soldier in Hospital, Was Castigated by Eisenhower
Edward Kennedy
The Patton Slapping Case: August--November 1943	665	(7)
``Then I Got It''
Richard Tregaskis
American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943	672	(11)
from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle
Robert Sherrod
The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943
``I Didn't Know Whether We Had the Heart to Fight a War''	683	(4)
View of the Carnage	687	(21)
``The Hard Facts of War''	708	(5)
``The Target Was To Be the Big City''
Edward R. Murrow
Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943	713	(8)
The Price of Fire
Martha Gellhorn
Royal Air Force Burn Center: December 1943	721	(7)
The Italian Campaign: ``Slow Progress''
Ernie Pyle
December 1943---January 1944
``The Land and the Weather Are Both Against Us''	728	(2)
``One Demolished Town After Another''	730	(2)
``Mule Packing Outfit''	732	(3)
``This One Is Captain Waskow''	735	(3)
San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Costs Americans Dearly
Homer Bigart
Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943	738	(8)
Over the Lines
Margaret Bourke-White
Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943	746	(15)
Christmas on New Guinea
Vincent Tubbs
African-American G.I.'s in the Southwest Pacific: December 1943	761	(3)
``Tired of Winter Tired of War''
Gertrude Stein
Occupied France: January-February 1944	764	(17)
I Love Mountain Warfare
Walter Bernstein
Italy: January 1944	781	(14)
Chronology, 1933--1945	795	(36)
Maps	831	(17)
Biographical Notes	848	(16)
Note on the Texts	864	(5)
Acknowledgments	869	(3)
Notes	872	(25)
Glossary of Military Terms	897	(5)
Index	902