TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorrell,Henry T.
AU  - Gorrell,Kenneth
AU  - McManus,John C.
TI  - Soldier of the press: covering the front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943 
SN  - 9780826218513
U1  - 961.01 20A
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbia, MO
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - RECHERCHE HISTORIQUE
KW  - HISTOIRE MILITAIRE
KW  - DEUXIEME GUERRE MONDIALE
KW  - PERIODE COLONIALE
KW  - MAGHREB
KW  - EUROPE
N1  - Index; Notes bibliogr; Prologue -- Little Caesar -- Civil War in Spain -- Prisoner of war -- The Simpson case -- The siege of Madrid -- Interlude: reflecting on events, 1936-1939 -- London: September 1939 -- Balkan powder keg -- Nadia of the Gestapo -- Lieutenant Bill Belle -- Hitler: "carry out plan number four!" -- Vichy treachery -- Taxi to Teheran -- Interlude: October 1941\-May 1942 -- Malta convoy -- The retreat to Alamein -- Rommel hits a Stone Wall -- "The lull continues in the western desert"--BBC -- "Winnie" comes to Alamein -- "No retreat and no surrender"--Montgomery -- "Milk run" to Benghazi -- The bombing of Navarino bay -- The battle of Alamein -- Rommel packs up -- Benghazi's fall -- The Yanks bomb naples -- The death of private "X" -- The "ladies from hell" attack -- The fall of Tripoli -- Conclusion (but the war goes on)
N2  - "This memoir by United Press war correspondent Henry T. Gorrell provides eyewitness accounts from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War and the war fronts in Greece, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during World War II"--Provided by publisher
ER  -