Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with

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

â€œA book every modern journalistâ€”and citizenâ€”should read.â€â€”Tom Brokaw, Author ofÂ The Greatest Generation

In February 1943, a group of journalistsâ€”including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooneyâ€”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 heâ€™d thought through a lede. â€œI think Iâ€™m going to say,â€ mused Cronkite, â€œthat Iâ€™ve just returned from an assignment to hell.â€

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 Yorkerâ€™s A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris. The Associated Pressâ€™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 IIâ€™s greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascismâ€”their generationâ€™s â€œassignment to hell.â€

Country	USA
Author	Timothy M. Gay
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780451417152
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0451417151
Label	Caliber
Manufacturer	Caliber
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	528
PublicationDate	2013-05-07
Publisher	Caliber
ReleaseDate	2013-05-07
Studio	Caliber

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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