Don Whitehead, who died in 1981, also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel, won a George Polk Memorial Award, and wrote a number of books, includingThe FBI Story. John B. Romeiser teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars Program. He edited Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942-1945 (Fordham). Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rick Atkinson's best-selling books include In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat and An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943. Franklin is a retired US Army officer and he knew Whitehead and served with him.
Romeiser has done a skillful job in blending these absorbing
accounts of one reporter's experiences during a critical campaign
for America's inexperienced army. * -The Kentucky Register *
Whitehead's diary gives us a sense of his day-to-day thinking,
unchanged by retrospection and polish. * -Journalism History *
The book never lets up on its trip into the heart of a strange and
deadly nightmare. * -On Point *
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