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1 online resource (671 pages) |
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Cover; Halftitle; Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; A Note on the Foremothers; The Groundbreakers; Gassandras 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 |
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Touching Base on Five ContinentsSlogging Through Italy; New Women Gome Over for Overlord; D-Day; Trekking North from Rome; That Summer in France; Liberating Paris; Grossing 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 Gamps; The Longed-for Day; It Is Not Over, Over Here"; Women Winding Up a War; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Here's how a hundred brave American women left their families and entered the combat-zone to chronicle what they saw. Nancy Sorel's portrait pays homage to these unsung heroes. They came from Boston, New York, Milwaukee, and St. Louis; from Yakima, Washington; Austin, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa; from San Francisco and all points east. They left comfortable homes and safe surroundings for combat-zone duty. As women war correspondents, they brought to the battlefields of World War II a fresh optic, and reported back home what they witnessed with a new sensibility. Their experience was |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists -- Biography
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War photographers -- United States -- Biography
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Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Women photographers -- United States -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Journalists
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War photographers
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Women journalists
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Women photographers
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United States
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781628721157 |
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1628721154 |
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