3V Leather (Like Easton) REPORTING WWII Ernie Pyle, Murrow, Cronkite, Rooney, ++

Description: 3 BOOKS ON REPORTERS DURING WORLD WAR II MATCHING LEATHER BOUND SET ERNIE PYLE'S WAR by James Tobin (The Free Press, 1997): When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great as the loss of the wartime president.If the hidden horrors and valor of combat persist at all in the public mind, it is because of those writers who watched it and recorded it in the faith that war is too important to be confined to the private memories of the warriors. Above all these writers, Ernie Pyle towered as a giant. Through his words and his compassion, Americans everywhere gleaned their understanding of what they came to call “The Good War.”Pyle walked a troubled path to fame. Though insecure and anxious, he created a carefree and kindly public image in his popular prewar column—all the while struggling with inner demons and a tortured marriage. War, in fact, offered Pyle an escape hatch from his own personal hell.It also offered him a subject precisely suited to his talent—a shrewd understanding of human nature, an unmatched eye for detail, a profound capacity to identify with the suffering soldiers whom he adopted as his own, and a plain yet poetic style reminiscent of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. These he brought to bear on the Battle of Britain and all the great American campaigns of the war—North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day and Normandy, the liberation of Paris, and finally Okinawa, where he felt compelled to go because of his enormous public stature despite premonitions of death.In this immensely engrossing biography, affectionate yet critical, journalist and historian James Tobin does an Ernie Pyle job on Ernie Pyle, evoking perfectly the life and labors of this strange, frail, bald little man whose love/hate relationship to war mirrors our own. Based on dozens of interviews and copious research in little-known archives, Ernie Pyle's War is a self-effacing tour de force. To read it is to know Ernie Pyle, and most of all, to know his war. ASSIGNMENT TO HELL by Timothy Gay (NAL Caliber, 2012) -- Blacked out remainder mark on edge: 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.” THE MURROW BOYS by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson (Houghton Mifflin, 1996): Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, and others - as they "paint pictures in the air" from the World War II front. Brimming with personalities and anecdotal detail, it also serves up a sharp-eyed account of where the craft went wrong after the war, when vanity and commercialism increasingly intruded. "This is history at its best," said Ted Anthony of AP News. A wonderfully well written and attention-grabbing book about the broadcast journalists some of us grew up listing to during the mid-century. An alternative subtitle (to paraphrase William Shirer) could be “The rise and fall of broadcast journalism in America.” Cloud and Olson have crafted a fascinating story of how Edward R. Murrow and his team invented broadcast journalism and transported the craft to maturity, and then how CBS and the other major broadcasting networks reduced the profession to its current impotency. Biographical sketches of each team member along with stories about the relationships among the individuals provide much of the substance. To tell this story, the authors relied upon a wide range of sources including personal interviews with surviving members of the Murrow Boys before the book was originally published in 1996. A revised epilogue brings the book up to date. I recommend this book to American history buffs, WWII enthusiasts, and those who are interested in the history of journalism. All three books have been rebound in full leather as a matching set. The books have been gently read. Questions please email me. USPS media mail shipping with delivery confirmation. US buyers only.

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