In the end Padre Woolf cost thirteen white chips. He was relieved to see his compatriots in Rome, having been told the American embassy had already gone and left him behind. The last diplomatic train left on May 13,1942, for Lisbon.
Celebrates the accomplishments of World War II's female war correspondents, who risked their lives in combat zones to provide firsthand reports on the events of the war
This Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history—and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow,...
Here are William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes.
This Library of America volume is the first of a unique two-volume anthology. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books, Reporting World War II captures...
This collection of profiles pays tribute to the groundbreaking female reporters of World War II, such as Martha Gellhorn, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller, along with others who brought an original sensibility to the world of war ...
Fresh from a 12-year engagement in the pages of The Atlantic--65 wonderfully witty "first encounters" of the great and near great, the famous and infamous, throughout history. Brilliantly conceived and...