I Have Seen War; 25 Stories from World War II
New York: Popular Library, 1963. Popular Library edition. Presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. viii, 9-255, [1] pages. Includes quotation from FDR and a Preface. Also contains chapters on I Heard Bombs Drop; The News was all Bad; The Wild Blue Yonder; GI Joe; My Own, My Native Land; The Prison House of Europe; The Turning Tide; The Victory in Europe; and Everybody is Dead. This book contains writings by Norman Mailer, Ira Wolfert, Bill Mauldin, John Hersey, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Kessel, Cornelius Ryan and others. Dorothy Sterling (née Dannenberg; November 23, 1913 – December 1, 2008) was an American writer and historian. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years, including work for the Federal Writers’ Project. Sterling worked for Time from 1936 to 1949 and was then assistant bureau chief in Life’s news bureau from 1944 to 1949. Starting in the 1950s, she authored more than 30 books, mainly non-fiction historical works on the origins of the women's and anti-slavery movements, civil rights, segregation, and nature. This book is a sampling of the sights and sounds and smells of World War II. All but two of the selections come from men and women who were right there on the battlefield while the action was taking place. They do not write of conquering heroes, and the only general in the book is a defeated one. Their reports describe ordinary people--GIs, housewives, a Russian girl, a Chinese boy--who were caught up in the biggest and bloodiest war in the history of mankind. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Pearl harbor, Norman Mailer, Ira Wolfert, Bill Mauldin, John Hersey, Ralph Ellison, Cornelius Ryan, Agnes Smedley, Saint=Exupery, Cecil Brown, Maurice Hindus, Gerda Weismann Klein, Nagasaki, Hero, Stalingrad, Plievier, Maidanek
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