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Combat Correspondents
Joseph Sterne
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Description for Combat Correspondents
Paperback. Their dispatches, which reported the war with the immediacy of real time, make up the core of this book. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; DNJ; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
The Baltimore Sun covered World War II with an outstanding team of combat correspondents, among them three future Pulitzer Prize winners. The correspondents witnessed momentous events: Anzio and Cassino, D-Day, Black Christmas in the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine, the link up with the Russians on the Elbe, the German surrender at Rheims, the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri. They took enormous risks. Price Day was in action at Anzio and Cassino; Holbrook Bradley landed with the 29th Division on the Normandy beaches. Lee McCardell narrowly escaped death ... Read more
The Baltimore Sun covered World War II with an outstanding team of combat correspondents, among them three future Pulitzer Prize winners. The correspondents witnessed momentous events: Anzio and Cassino, D-Day, Black Christmas in the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine, the link up with the Russians on the Elbe, the German surrender at Rheims, the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri. They took enormous risks. Price Day was in action at Anzio and Cassino; Holbrook Bradley landed with the 29th Division on the Normandy beaches. Lee McCardell narrowly escaped death ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Maryland Historical Society United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780938420149
SKU
V9780938420149
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About Joseph Sterne
Joseph R. L. Sterne is himself a veteran reporter, not unfamiliar with war zones. His career at the Baltimore Sun spanned over four decades, as reporter, bureau chief in London and Bonn, a roving correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa, assistant bureau chief in Washington, D.C., and editorial page editor for a record twenty-five years. Sterne is also a Senior Fellow ... Read more
Reviews for Combat Correspondents
Sterne celebrates them, but without nostalgia... The correspondents' total iimmersion in their world imbues their reports with emotional dimensions.
Michae Sragow Baltimore Sun 2009 More than the quality of the reporting itself, the reader will be struck by the changes in technology-driven communication over the span of nearly 70 years.
Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past ... Read more
Michae Sragow Baltimore Sun 2009 More than the quality of the reporting itself, the reader will be struck by the changes in technology-driven communication over the span of nearly 70 years.
Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past ... Read more