Eyewitness History of World War II: Victory; Volume 4, The Total Experience in Words and Photographs
New York, N.Y. Bantam Books, Inc., 1966. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 215, [9] pages. Cover and some pages soiled and stained. Spine worn with small tears. Bookseller's stamp inside the front cover. This volume contains two of the war's most famous photographs: the Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima and the atomic mushroom cloud. It also includes a dramatic series of photographs of the way it was on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day; a memorable picture of three 14-year-old members of Hitler's "Air Guard"; a shocking photograph of the hell that was Belsen, and the photograph which may be the last ever taken of Hitler. This covers From D-Day in Europe to the Unconditional Surrender of Japan. Mr. Rothberg received a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1947 and a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia in 1952. For the next seven years he was the editor of Free Europe Press, a division of Radio Free Europe. He was later a European correspondent for The National Observer and went on to teach at Hofstra, Columbia and St. John Fisher College in Rochester. More