TIME Goes to War

Category: Books,History,Military

TIME Goes to War Details

From Publishers Weekly For connoisseurs of history's rough draft comes this anthology of Time magazine's coverage of conflicts from the Second World War to Operation Enduring Freedom. Full of local color ("An empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his 1942 retreat") and two-fisted prose ("the Jap ships lay like dozing ducks"), these war dispatches are models of concise, impressionistic writing. They're accompanied by lots of vivid pictures, sometimes grouped into photo essays on topics such as the home front, the supporting cast (medics, cooks, service animals) and USO entertainers. The short and snappy reporting can seem shallow, and sometimes lapses into mere embellishments of Pentagon press briefings ("The Viet Cong's once-cocky hunters are now the cowering hunted," the magazine reported in 1965) but some pieces, like Robert Sherrod's taut and moving report on the battle for Iwo Jima, are still gems. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more

Reviews

This is an OK read. The thing that stands out on this book is the photos. Time and other magazines always excell at having great pictures. The articles that were taken from old Time magazines leave a lot to be desired. The reader can see the inaccuracies at the time these articles were written. For example, the optimism of U.S. leaders after the intervention of ground troops in Vietnam in 1965. If you are looking for history, look elsewhere. If you want to scan the pictures, this is an OK book.Unfortunately more and more of our weekly publications are going for these quick sources of income. Little thought may be made in the input to these books. An OK read, but for more detail, read elsewhere.

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