Reviews
Sterne celebrates them, but without nostalgia... The correspondents' total immersion in their world imbues their reports with emotional dimensions.
More than the quality of the reporting itself, the reader will be struck by the changes in technology-driven communication over the span of nearly 70 years.
The quality of the narratives included here, and Sterne's historical comments on them, will cause readers to wonder why no other historian has taken up the subject in the last sixty-five years.
A very readable narrative... highly recommended for those interested in what the public reads about battles and citizen-soldiers. The book is especially important for journalism students.
This is good, old-fashioned, newspaper journalism at its very best: war reporting as it should be, written on the front lines by a half dozen literate, brave, and elegant correspondents of The Baltimore Sun. Readers who missed World War II will sense the thrill of being alive when the whole world was on fire; those who were there may look back in wonder.