Drawn from wartime newspaper and magazine reports radio transcripts and books Reporting World War II captures the unfolding drama through the work of more than 50 writers the best of a remarkable generation of reporters. Here are William L. Shirer and Howard K. Smith inside Nazi Germany; A J. Liebling on the fall of France and the Tunisian campaign; Edward R. Murrow on the London Blitz and Buchenwald; Ernie Pyle on the war in the foxholes. Margaret Bourke-White flies over the lines in Italy; Robert Sherrod and Tom Lea record the horrors of the Pacific war; Janet Flanner and Martha Gellhorn examine a defeated Germany. On the homefront E. B. White visits a bond rally James Agee reviews newsreels and Roi Ottley exposes racism in the military. Included in full is Hiroshima John Hersey s classic account of the first atomic bombing and its aftermath.