Reporting War

How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II

Ray Moseley

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780300226348
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

This "excellent, wonderfully-researched" chronicle of WWII journalism explores the lives and work of embedded reporters across every theater of war (Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London). Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In Reporting War, fellow foreign correspondent Ray Moseley mines their writings to create an exhilarating parallel narrative of the war effort in Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan. This vivid history also explores the lives, methods, and motivations of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. Moseley's sweeping yet intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account of the war. Reporting War sheds much-needed light on an abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Plates
• Introduction
• 1 Hitler Unleashes the War
• 2 War in Finland, Norway and Denmark
• 3 The Fall of France and the Low Countries
• 4 The Battle of Britain and the Air War on Germany
• 5 The German Conquest of Greece and Yugoslavia
• 6 Germany Invades the Soviet Union
• 7 Pearl Harbor
• 8 Japan Invades: The Philippines, Singapore, Burma
• 9 Pacific Island Campaigns
• 10 The Desert War
• 11 Stalingrad and Leningrad
• 12 The Battle for Italy
• 13 D-Day Landings in Normandy
• 14 The Battle for France
• 15 The Liberation of Paris
• 16 The Western Allies Drive Toward Germany
• 17 Germany Invaded
• 18 The Camps Inside Germany
• 19 The End of the War in Europe
• 20 Final Battles in the Pacific
• 21 Victory over Japan
• 22 After the War
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Illustration Credits