Reporting World War II: The 75th Anniversary Edition 2c Box Set: American Journalism 1938-1946, Hynes Samuel

Released to mark the 75th anniversary of Americas entrance into World War II, this Library of America two-volume boxed set gathers the acclaimed collection that evokes an extraordinary period in American history--and in American journalism. In two authoritative Library of America volumes, nearly 200 pieces by 80 writers record events from Munich to the birth of the nuclear age. Included are reports by William L. Shirer, Edward R. Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, Margaret Bourke-White, and scores of other of the eras great journalists, as well as the complete texts of two books: Bill Mauldins Up Front, the classic evocation of war from the GIs point of view, presented with his famous cartoons, and Hiroshima, John Herseys compassionate account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath. Each volume contains a chronology, maps, biographical profiles, notes and a glossary, and 32 pages of photographs.