Wellers War : A Legendary Foreign Correspondents Saga of World War II on Five Continents

English

ISBN: 0307406555

EAN: 9780307406552

Category: History / Military / World War I/Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism/History / Military / World War II/

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 08/29/2011

Synopsis: Walter Cronkite called him one of our best war correspondents. His stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the PaciFic during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now, George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless, intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited by his son, Wellers War provides an eyewitness look at modern historys greatest upheaval, and also contains never-published reporting alongside excerpts from three books. From battlefront to beachhead, Weller incisively chronicles the heroism and humanity that still managed to triumph amid horriFic events. Following the Nazi seizure of Eastern Europe and his own quarantine in Greece by the Gestapo, George Weller accompanies Congolese troops freeing Ethiopia for Haile Selassie. He remains in doomed Singapore until the colony falls. On Java, he watches brave American Fighter pilots delay the islands collapse. Strafed by Japanese planes, he escapes by small boat to Australia. He covers the PaciFic, from the Solomon Islands to the jungle hell of New Guinea. Back in Europe he sees a liberated Greece beset by civil war, then crosses the Middle East. In Burma, he risks guerrilla raids behind enemy lines. At the wars close, he hurries from China to a defeated but uncowed Japan, where new horrors await. And he struggles throughout against a tireless adversarycensorship. Vivid and heart-stopping, the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are as intimate, memorable, and relevant today as they were nearly seventy years agoand demonstrate what it meant to be a foreign correspondent long before the era of satellite phones and the Internet.

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Wellers War : A Legendary Foreign Correspondents Saga of World War II on Five Continents

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 2.01 inches

Width: 6.51 inches

Length: 9.53 inches

Weight: 33.05 oz

Pages: 656