| Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod Contributor(s): Boomhower, Ray E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1538425734 ISBN-13: 9781538425732 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - United States - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: 940.545 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 6.7" (0.20 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa atoll with the US Marine Corps.Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front desperately scanned Sherrod's columns for news of their loved ones.After Sherrod's death in 1994, the Washington Post heralded his reporting as "some of the most vivid accounts of men at war ever produced by an American journalist." Now, for the first time, Ray E. Boomhower tells Sherrod's story in this intimate account of thePacific front war efforts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Boomhower, Ray E.: - Ray E. Boomhower is interim senior director of the Indiana Historical Society Press. He has written books on the lives of Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, May Wright Sewall, and John Bartlow Martin, among others. In 2010 he was named winner of the Regional Award in the annual Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards. |