Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam - Couverture souple

Boomhower, Ray E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826366996 ISBN 13 : 9780826366993

Editeur : High Road Books, 2024

Synopsis

In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Tregaskis was one of only two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, and in his notebook he captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II’s most legendary battles—and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, Guadalcanal Diary.

One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book Vietnam Diary. Boomhower’s riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis’s gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ray E. Boomhower is the acclaimed author of twenty books, including biographies about some of the country’s finest war correspondents such as Ernie Pyle, Richard Tregaskis, and Malcolm W. Browne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: High Road Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826366996
• ISBN 13: 9780826366993
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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