Time Goes to War - Hardcover

The Editors Of TIME

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931933227 ISBN 13: 9781931933223

Publisher: Time, 2002

Synopsis

From World War II through Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War, this richly illustrated study of America at war offers incisive accounts by TIME reporters on the front lines and on the home front, celebrating the soldiers, leaders, journalists, chaplains, nurses, doctors, and other heroic men and women who played key roles in wartime. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

For connoisseurs of history's rough draft comes this anthology of Time magazine's coverage of conflicts from the Second World War to Operation Enduring Freedom. Full of local color ("An empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his 1942 retreat") and two-fisted prose ("the Jap ships lay like dozing ducks"), these war dispatches are models of concise, impressionistic writing. They're accompanied by lots of vivid pictures, sometimes grouped into photo essays on topics such as the home front, the supporting cast (medics, cooks, service animals) and USO entertainers. The short and snappy reporting can seem shallow, and sometimes lapses into mere embellishments of Pentagon press briefings ("The Viet Cong's once-cocky hunters are now the cowering hunted," the magazine reported in 1965) but some pieces, like Robert Sherrod's taut and moving report on the battle for Iwo Jima, are still gems.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Time
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931933227
• ISBN 13: 9781931933223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176