Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs

"No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."-from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson

Author: Don Whitehead
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 09/15/2006
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.40w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780823226757

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2006 pg. 88
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Outstanding
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 35

About the Author

Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel, won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story.

John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942-1945 (Fordham).

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rick Atkinson's best-selling books include In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat and An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943. Franklin is a retired US Army officer and he knew Whitehead and served with him.