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.
關於作者：
PETE HAMILL, editor, is the author of 22
books, including News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the
Twentieth Century and the novels Forever and North
River. As a journalist he has reported on wars in Vietnam,
Nicaragua, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland, written columns for
several newspapers and magazines, and served as editor-in-chief of
both the New York Post and the New York Daily
News.
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