The women who wrote the war

Chronicles the experiences of women reporters during World War II, discussing the discrimination they faced from the military and male colleagues, and looking at the adverse physical conditions they suffered in their efforts to bring the story of the war home to America.

  • OCLC #: 41452579
  • ISBN #:
    • 1559704934
    • 9781559704939
    • 0060958391
    • 9780060958398
  • Call #: D799.U6S563 1999
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — D799 .U6 S563 1999
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Norman Kuperman Military History Collection.
  • Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice: New York : Arcade : Time Warner Trade [distributor], [1999]. ©1999
  • Edition:
    • 1st ed.
  • Physical Description: xviii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Contents:
    • The Groundbreakers --
    • Cassandras of the Coming Storm --
    • Apprentices in Spain --
    • The Lessons of Czechoslovakia --
    • One Thought, One Holy Mission: Poland --
    • Waiting for Hitler: The Phony War --
    • Fleeing France --
    • Braving the Blitz --
    • Working Under the Swastika --
    • Margaret Bourke-White Shoots the Russian War --
    • Treading Water, Marking Time --
    • China Hands --
    • Facing the War That Is Our War Now --
    • Women Behind Walls: Manila, Siena, Shanghai --
    • Learning the Rules, Dressing the Part --
    • Women on Trial: North Africa --
    • Touching Base on Five Continents --
    • Slogging Through Italy --
    • New Women Come Over for Overlord --
    • D Day --
    • Trekking North from Rome --
    • That Summer in France --
    • Liberating Paris --
    • Crossing the Siegfried Line --
    • The Battle of the Bulge --
    • Penetrating the Pacific Barriers --
    • Iwo Jima --
    • Of Rain, Ruin, Relationships, and the Bridge at Remagen --
    • The Month of April: The Advance --
    • The Month of April: The Camps --
    • The Longed-for Day --
    • "It Is Not Over, Over Here" --
    • Women Winding Up a War.