REPORTING WORLD WAR II

As we confront new threats to our Liberty, in the wake of September 11, 2001, it is helpful to reflect on prior times of conflict, experiencing the intensity of the struggle and the magnitude of the sacrifice.

Therefore, we, at Gryphon Editions, wanted to offer to Members of our Libraries a significant work, printed on archival paper and bound in genuine, top-grain leather. Our choice - The Library of America's two-volume REPORTING WORLD WAR II - offers readers the best record ever compiled of the war as it unfolded and was lived.

For all the fine documentaries, novels, and histories of the war, it was reading REPORTING WORLD WAR II that truly made us feel what it must have been like to be alive in those years. These pages carry an emotional impact for which I was truly unprepared. In addition, all of the facts are in these volumes, including detailed chronologies of the war.

A mention of a few of the nearly 200 pieces by some ninety writers will give you an idea of the anthology's range:

Sigrid Schultz reports on Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, putting the reader on the street as Hitler seizes 20,000 Jews.

Edward R. Murrow askes, writing of Londoners enduring the Blitz in September 1940, "Can They Take It?"

E.B. White places us at a war-bond rally in Bangor, Maine, in September 1942 alongside its main draw, pinup girl Dorothy Lamour.

Richard Tregaskis describes being wounded in Italy in November 1943.

Martha Gellhorn reports on the first hospital ship to handle casualties of Normandy in June 1944 and, six month later, files a story on the Battle of the Bulge.

Ernest Hemingway opens "How We Came to Paris" with the words, "Never can I describe to you the emotions I felt on the arrival of the armored column of General Leclerc southeast of Paris."

Martha Gellhorn reports in May 1945 from just liberated Dachau, titling her piece "Surely This War Was Made to Abolish Dachau."

These stories will astonish you with their immediacy. You will recognize the lasting importance of the writing you will encounter.

There is an immediacy to these stories that will, I think, astonish you. At the same time the writing collected here is so fine that you'll recognize it as lasting and important literature.

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