Dimensions
163 x 237 x 42mm
The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
They worked on the front lines—so they could write the headlines.
In 1943, a group of journalists—including a young correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—received an invitation to fly along on a bombing run over Germany. Of the sixty-six that took off the next day, only fifty-two made it back to England. A fellow survivor asked Cronkite if he'd thought of a possible lead for his story. 'I think I'm going to say,' mused Cronkite, 'that I've just returned from an assignment to hell . . . '
Assignment to Hell tells the true story of the war against Hitler through the eyes of five intrepid reporters. Cronkite left behind a wife in Kansas City to extol the brave Americans battling flak and enemy fighters in the skies over the Third Reich., while Andy Rooney was a smart-aleck draftee who found himself covering the war for Stars and Stripes instead of fighting it for the 17th Artillery Division.
