Assignment to Hell The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, a . J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle

Name: Assignment to Hell The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, a . J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
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ISBN: 9780451417152

ISBN-10: 0451417151

ISBN-13: 9780451417152

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Authors: Timothy M. Gay

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THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINESIn February 1943, a group of journalists—including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of theNew York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he’d thought through a lede. “I think I’m going to say,” mused Cronkite, “that I’ve just returned from an assignment to hell.”Assignment to Helltells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Cronkite crashed into…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue: D-Day for All Their Lives



Early Impressions



"All Sorts of Horrors"-Crossing Torpedo Junction



North Africa's Lipless Kiss



Angry Meteors in Tunisia



Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th



Falling Like Dying Moths



Sicily-Darker Than a Witch's Hat



White Crosses Along the Red Rapido



The Blitz Spirit-London and the Home Front



Cherbourg and St.-Lï¿½-Ugly Fighting Among Dead Cattle



The Breakout-Merci! Merci! Merci!



Rescuing the Kitten-Paris Redeemed



Gasping Cough-Crashing into Holland



Gray Phantoms and Murder Factories-The Bulge to Buchenwald


Epilogue: A Good Age


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Endnotes


Index