Richard Tregaskis Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam

In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Only one of two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, Tregaskis's notebook captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II's most legendary battles--and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, Guadalcanal Diary.One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book Vietnam Diary. Boomhower's riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis's gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.

ISBN:	9780826362889
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:	High Road Books
Published date:	30 Nov 2021
DEWEY:	070.4333092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 347 , 14 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	582g
Height:	152mm
Width:	232mm
Spine width:	26mm

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