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Title: Assignment to Hell
Author: Timothy M. Gay
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-18-12
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Summary:
Their work on the front lines made headlines.
In February 1943, a group of journalists - including a young wire-service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney - clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the 64 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 hed thought through a lede.
I think Im going to say, mused Cronkite, that Ive just returned from an assignment to hell.
During his esteemed career, Walter Cronkite issued millions of words for public consumption, but he never wrote or uttered a truer phrase.
Assignment to Hell tells the powerful and poignant story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Crisscrossing battlefields, they formed a journalistic band of brothers, repeatedly placing themselves in harms way to bring the war home for anxious American readers.
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 Yorkers A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fire as Allied troops liberated his beloved Paris. The Associated Presss Hal Boyle barely escaped SS storm troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U.S. soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
Assignment to Hell is a stirring tribute to five of World War IIs greatest correspondents and to the brave men and women who fought on the front lines against fascism - their generations "assignment to hell".
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