Download Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle AudioBook Free
Their work on the front lines made headlines. In Feb 1943, several journalists - including a wire-service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney - clamored to journey along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the 64 bombers that attacked a U-boat bottom part that day never managed to get back to Great britain. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, asked Cronkite if he'd thought through a lede. "I believe I'm going to say," mused Cronkite, "that I've just went back from an project to hell." During his esteemed job, Walter Cronkite given an incredible number of words for general population intake, but he never published or uttered a truer key phrase. Task to Hell tells the powerful and poignant tale of the conflict against Hitler through the sight of five intrepid reporters. Crisscrossing battlefields, they made a journalistic strap of brothers, repeatedly positioning themselves in harm's way to bring the conflict home for restless American readers. Cronkite crashed into Holland on a glider with U.S. paratroopers. Rooney dodged mortar shells as he raced across the Rhine at Remagen. Behind enemy lines in Sicily, Bigart jumped into an amphibious commando raid that nearly ended in devastation. The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling ducked sniper fireplace as Allied troops liberated his loved Paris. The Associated Press's Hal Boyle scarcely escaped SS surprise troopers as he uncovered the massacre of U.S. soldiers during the Struggle of the Bulge. Task to Hell is a stirring tribute to five of World Battle II's biggest correspondents and the brave women and men who fought on the front lines against fascism - their generation's "project to hell".
