Typewriter Battalion: Dramatic Frontline Dispatches from World War II. Introduction by Walter Cronkite.

Published by New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (). First Edition, stated., 1995

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Octavo, black & gray boards (hardcover), xviii + 397 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Typewriter Battalion is the exciting chronicle of the most dramatic event of this century -- World War II. Captured in this book are the actual words from the foreign correspondents who reported day to day, battle by battle from the war's front lines. It was a time, before CNN and the network newscats, when words painted a thousand pictures. The correspondents caught not only the immediacy of the events they had often just witnessed but also the color and pathos of the war. This is the story of the war from Pearl Harbor to the battles in Europe and the Pacific, the Normandy invasion on D-Day, the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, and the trials of the nazi commanders in Nuremberg. This book renders a vivid portrait of these events by collecting the writings of the war's most distinguished and award-winning correspondents. Included here are the original, up-to-the-minute reports; for instance, there's Walter Cronkite's rousing account of flying with the U.S. Air Force over war-torn Europe, Richard Tragaskis's report from an aircraft carrier en route to bombing Tokyo, Ernie Pyle's poignant tribute to a fallen soldier from Texas. and over seventy-five others. Many of these pieces are first-persona ccounts such as Gault MacGowan's "Escape from the Nazis" and Kingsbury Smith's chilling descriptions of the Nuremberg traials and executions. Tpewriter Battalion uniquely records the war years in the voices of those who observed it up close. Military History, World War II, WWII, Second World War, Journalism. bslic.

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Title
Typewriter Battalion: Dramatic Frontline Dispatches from World War II. Introduction by Walter Cronkite.
Author
Stenbuck, Jack; Editor.
Publisher
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (). First Edition, stated.
Publication year
1995
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Dust Jacket Included
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