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Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead delivered battlefield dispatches that were classics of frontline reporting. One of the legendary reporters of World War II, Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe - from landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio on the Italian front to Normandy, where he went ashore at Omaha Beach with the First Army Division. Writing for the Associated Press, he covered the brutal beachhead fighting and followed the Allied sweep to victory across France, Belgium, and Germany. Whitehead reported on some of the most dramatic events of the war, from the liberation of Paris and the meeting of American and Russian forces at the Elbe River, to the liberation of Buchenwald. Daring, valiant, and fearless, ""Beachhead Don"" was one of sixteen correspondents awarded the Medal of Freedom by Harry S Truman. Whitehead also reported from the Korean War for six years and covered national and and international politics. Collected here for the first time, his dispatches are classics of war journalism. This book, long overdue, will help a new generation discover Whitehead's vivid, powerful, and unforgettable stories of men at war. John Romeiser provides a richly detailed introduction and background to the man, his work, and his world.

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...Beachhead Don... not only provides a view of the war from the perspective of the frontline soldiers, but also highlights the great change that has overtaken journalism since the advent of television. -- -Donal J. Sexton * Tusculum College *

.,. Beachhead Don... not only provides a view of the war from the perspective of the frontline soldiers, but also highlights the great change that has overtaken journalism since the advent of television.

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Don Whitehead was born in 1908 in the coal country of Virginia and graduated from the University of Kentucky, later joining the Associated Press as a reporter in Tennessee. He was sent overseas by AP in 1942 to cover the British Army's drive against Erwin Rommel's tanks in North Africa. He later worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. In addition to two Pulitzers, Whitehead won a George Polk Memorial Award in 1951 and wrote a number of books, including The FBI Story. He died in 1981. John B. Romeiser teaches French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he is co-founder and former director of the Normandy Scholars program.

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