Cronkite, Walter, IV.

Cronkite's war : his World War II letters home / Walter Cronkite IV and Maurice Isserman. - Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2013] - xxxiv, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword by Tom Brokaw -- Map of European Theater -- Cast of characters -- Introduction by Walter Cronkite IV -- A pretty personal matter -- The writing Sixty-Ninth -- The youthful dean of American Air-War writers -- Invasion jitters -- Once this war is over -- Epilogue by Maurice Isserman -- Afterword by Walter Cronkite IV -- Time line.

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book

1426210191 9781426210198

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Cronkite, Walter--Correspondence.
Cronkite, Walter--Family.
Cronkite, Betsy, -2005 --Correspondence.


United Press International--Biography.


World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Correspondence.
War correspondents--United States--Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Anecdotes.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Love-letters--United States.

D799.U6 / C76 2012

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