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World War II Writings
Library of America
March 2008
On Sale: February 28, 2008
1100 pages
ISBN: 1598530186
EAN: 9781598530186
Hardcover
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One of the most gifted and influential American journalists
of the 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years
reporting the dramatic events and myriad individual stories
of World War II. As a correspondent for The New Yorker,
Liebling wrote with a passionate commitment to Allied
victory, an unfailing attention to telling details, and an
appreciation for the literary challenges presented by the
“discursive, centrifugal, both repetitive and disparate”
nature of war. This volume brings together three books along
with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerpts from
The Republic of Silence (1947), Liebling’s collection of
writing from the French Resistance. The Road Back to Paris (1944) narrates Liebling’s
experiences from September 1939 to March 1943, including his
shock at the fall of France and dismay at isolationist
indifference in the United States; it contains classic
accounts of a winter voyage on a Norwegian tanker during the
Battle of the Atlantic, visits to front-line airfields in
North Africa, and the defeat of a veteran panzer division by
American troops in Tunisia. Mollie and Other War Pieces
(1964) brings together Liebling’s portrait of a legendary
nonconformist American soldier in North Africa with his
eyewitness account of Omaha Beach on D-Day, evocative
reports from Normandy, and investigation of a German
atrocity in rural France. In Normandy Revisited (1958)
Liebling writes about his return to France in 1955 and
recalls the joyous liberation of his beloved Paris while
exploring with bittersweet perception how wartime experience
is transformed into memory. The selection of uncollected New
Yorker pieces includes a profile of an RAF ace, surveys of
the French underground press, and an encounter with a
captured collaborator in Brittany, as well as postwar
reflections on battle fatigue, Ernie Pyle, and the writing
of military history. With maps and chronology.
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