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One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, Liebling found his greatest subject in the dramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. This volume brings together his three books on the war along with 29 "New Yorker" pieces.


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One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years reporting the dramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. As a correspondent for The New Yorker, Liebling wrote with a passionate commitment to Allied victory, an unfailing attention to telling details, and an appreciation for the literary challenges presented by the discursive, centrifugal, both repetitive and disparate nature of war. This volume brings together three books along with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerpts from The Republic of Silence (1947), Liebling's collection of writing from the French Resistance. The Road Back to Paris (1944) narrates Liebling's experiences from September 1939 to March 1943, including his shock at the fall of France and dismay at isolationist indifference in the United States; it contains classic accounts of a winter voyage on a Norwegian tanker during the Battle of the Atlantic, visits to front-line airfields in North Africa, and the defeat of a veteran panzer division by American troops in Tunisia. Mollie and Other War Pieces (1964) brings together Liebling's portrait of a legendary nonconformist American soldier in North Africa with his eyewitness account of Omaha Beach on D-Day, evocative reports from Normandy, and investigation of a German atrocity in rural France. In Normandy Revisited (1958) Liebling writes about his return to France in 1955 and recalls the joyous liberation of his beloved Paris while exploring with bittersweet perception how wartime experience is transformed into memory. The selection of uncollected New Yorker pieces includes a profile of an RAF ace, surveys of the French underground press, and an encounter with a captured collaborator in Brittany, as well as postwar reflections on battle fatigue, Ernie Pyle, and the writing of military history. With maps and chronology. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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  • Title A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings (Loa #181): The Road Back to Paris / Mollie and Other War Pieces / Uncollected War Journalism / Normandy Revisit
  • Author Pete Hamill (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 1100
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Library of America, New York
  • Date 2008-02-28
  • ISBN 9781598530186 / 1598530186
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.18 x 1.35 in (20.62 x 13.16 x 3.43 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007938791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.548

Media reviews

'Quietly, wittily, and humanely, Liebling introduces the reader to the common men in and around battle, and because of that probably gives a truer picture of things than most books about war.'
The Times (London)

Citations

  • Foreword, 02/14/2008, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2008, Page 130

About the author

Pete Hamill is a journalist and the author of many celebrated works of fiction and memoir, including A Drinking Life, Forever, and Snow in August.
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