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Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle Timothy M. Gay Reprint edition
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Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
Timothy M. Gay
THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES
In 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 the New 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 Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Cronkite crashed into Holland on a glider with U. S. paratroopers. Rooney dodged mortar shells as he raced across the Rhine at Remagen. Behind enemy lines in Sicily, Bigart jumped into an amphibious commando raid that nearly ended in disaster. The New Yorker?s A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris. The Associated Press?s Hal Boyle barely escaped SS storm troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U. S. soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
This book serves as a stirring tribute to five of World War II?s greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascism?their generation?s ?assignment to hell.?
528 pages, B/W PHOTOS
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 7, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780451417152 |
| Publishers | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Pages | 528 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 28 mm · 517 g |
| Language | English |
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