Assignment to Hell : the war against Nazi Germany with correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle / Timothy M. Gay.

Author: Gay, Timothy M.

Imprint:New York : New American Library, c2012.

Descriptionxiv, 508 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:D-Day for all their lives -- Early impressions -- "All sorts of horrors" : crossing Torpedo Junction -- North Africa's lipless kiss -- Angry meteors in Tunisia -- Bombing Germany with the Writing 69th -- Falling like dying moths -- Sicily--darker than a witch's hat -- White Crosses along the Red Rapido -- The Blitz Spirit : London and the Home Front -- Cherbourg and St.-Lo: ugly fighting among dead cattle -- The breakout : Merci! merci! merci! -- Rescuing the kitten : Paris redeemed -- Gasping cough : crashing into Holland -- Gray phantoms and murder factories : the Bulge to Buchenwald -- A good age.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-498) and index.

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