Reporting war : how foreign correspondents risked capture, torture, and death to cover World War II / Ray Moseley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hitler unleashes the war -- War in Finland, Norway and Denmark -- The fall of France and the Low Countries -- The Battle of Britain and the air war on Germany -- The German conquest of Greece and Yugoslavia -- Germany invades the Soviet Union -- Pearl Harbor -- Japan invades: the Philippines, Singapore, Burma -- Pacific Island campaigns -- The desert war -- Stalingrad and Leningrad -- The battle for Italy -- D-Day landings in Normandy -- The battle for France -- The liberation of Paris -- The western Allies drive toward Germany -- Germany invaded -- The camps inside Germany -- The end of the war in Europe -- Final battles in the Pacific -- Victory over Japan -- After the war.

Journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in parallel narrative, the events across every theater--Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan--as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. Moseley's broad and intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account both of the war and the abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.