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Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs: 12
Author(s): Don Whitehead (Author), John B. Romeiser (Editor), Rick Atkinson (Foreword), Benjamin Franklin (Afterword)
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 0823226751
- ISBN-13: 9780823226757
Book Description
“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”-from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson
Editorial Reviews
Review
Romeiser has done a skillful job in blending these absorbing accounts of one reporter’s experiences during a critical campaign for America’s inexperienced army.– “–The Kentucky Register”
The book never lets up on its trip into the heart of a strange and deadly nightmare.– “–On Point”
Whitehead’s diary gives us a sense of his day-to-day thinking, unchanged by retrospection and polish.– “–Journalism History”
About the Author
Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel, won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story.
John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited
Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942–1945 (Fordham).
