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OverviewThis set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country's neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and undermined the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by describing triumphs of Therese Mabel Bonney, Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps' creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiques issued by the military. Many wartime reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: G. Kurt Piehler , Ingo Trauschweizer , Steven Casey , Kendall CosleyPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9781531503093ISBN 10: 1531503098 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 25 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword Max D. Lederer Jr. | vii Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer | 1 1. Learning and Adapting: The American Media and the “Phony War,” September 1939–April 1940 Steven Casey | 15 2. Helen Kirkpatrick’s Reporting to Undercut Irish Neutrality Policy, 1939–1942 Karen Garner | 34 3. Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front Henry Oinas-Kukkonen | 55 4. Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-Known World War II Correspondents Kendall Cosley | 85 5. Two African American Journalists Confront World War II: Perspectives on Nationalism, Racism, and Identity Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier | 107 6. Bylines and Bayonets: How United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents in World War II Blended Journalism and Public Relations Douglass K. Daniel | 132 7. Reporting Reconnaissance to the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and American Strategies Victoria Sotvedt | 159 8. Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater Carolyn M. Edy | 172 9. A “Butcher and Bolt” Force: Commandos, Rangers, and Newspaper Dramatics in World War II James Austin Sandy | 193 10. “A Major Readjustment”: Omar Bradley’s War against the Stars and Stripes Alexander G. Lovelace | 213 11. After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg Nathaniel L. Moir | 234 Acknowledgments | 259 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265ReviewsThis book sheds light on those parts of the war American readers have largely forgotten: Irish neutrality, the Winter War in Finland, the role of the Black press, journalist-spies, and the ever-present pressures of censorship, to name a few. Journalism shaped our understanding of the war and, as Reporting World War II suggests, perhaps its outcome also.---Todd DePastino, author of Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front Author InformationG. Kurt Piehler (Edited By) G. Kurt Piehler is the author of A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (2021) and several reference works related to war and society. He is a member of the editorial board of the Service Newspapers of World War II digital publication (Adam Mathews) and on the advisory board of the NEH-funded American Soldier Project at Virginia Tech University (americansoldierww2.org). Ingo Trauschweizer (Edited By) Ingo Trauschweizer is a professor of history at Ohio University. He is the author of The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008) and Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019), and he is the editor or co-editor of three volumes in the Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies (Athens: Ohio University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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