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Following the Front: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson de Margot Clark-Junkins

Following the Front: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson

Autor Margot Clark-Junkins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2024
Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, 1944-1945.
Olson, who joined Time Inc. in 1939 and served as a senior editor there, asked to be assigned overseas as a war correspondent. In mid-December, 1944, he received his accreditation from the War Department and sailed for London.
Attached to the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Olson followed the Allied Forces as they pushed the Nazis back into Germany. He typed up his reports and cabled them to his editors in New York.
Following the front meant being on the move constantly. In late January, Olson made his way to Paris, flew to Brussels, then drove to the battlefront in Holland. From that time forward, he never really stopped moving. He would race ahead and circle back, hopping from one military division to the next, gradually making his way across Germany and into Austria. His dispatches illustrate--line by line, battle by battle--the extraordinary Allied effort to defeat Hitler.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538192085
ISBN-10: 153819208X
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 20 BW Photos
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Contents

I. Pre-War
May 20, 1939 Letter to Zembra
April 30, 1944 Olson Diary
May 6, 1944 Memo to Time Editors
Sept./Oct. 1944 Letter to Luce
Nov. 28, 1944 Telegram to Graebner & Wertenbaker
II. Wartime
1. A New Dark Age
Dec. 18 - 27, 1944 Olson Diary
Dec. 27, 1944 Letter to Zembra
Dec. 27, 1944 Letter to Luce
Dec. 28-29, 1944 Olson Diary
Jan. 2 - 5, 1945 Olson Diary
Jan. 8, 1945 Letter to Luce
Jan. 8, 1945 Letter to Zembra
Jan. 10 - 11, 1945 Olson Diary
Jan. 12, 1945 Letter to Zembra
Jan. 13, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
Jan. 16, 1945 Telegram from Luce
Jan. 17, 1945 Letter to Luce
Jan. 18, 1945 Cable 2539
2. The Dragon's Teeth
Jan. 27, 1945 Facility Visit, Adv Cdn Press Camp
Jan. 28, 1945 Sittard notes
Feb. 4, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
Feb. 5, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
Feb. 5, 1945 Letter to Zembra
Feb. 7, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
Feb. 8, 1945 (sent Feb. 28) Cable [unnumbered]
Feb. 10, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
Feb. 10, 1945 Letter to Zembra
Feb. 12, 1945 Cable 20
Feb. 17, 1945 Cable 21
Feb. 17, 1945 Cable 22
Feb. 24, 1945 Cable 24
Feb. 25, 1945 Cable 25
Feb. 26, 1945 Cable 26
Feb. 28, 1945 Cable 27
3. The Germans Are Beckoning Us On
March 2, 1945 Cable 28
March 2, 1945 Telegram from Luce
March 3, 1945 Cable 29 [I]
March 4, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
March 5, 1945 Letter to Zembra
March 6, 1945 Cable 29 [II]
March 7, 1945 Cable 30
March 10, 1945 Cable 31
March 11 - 17, 1945 Olson Diary
March 17, 1945 Cable 32
March 18 - 24, 1945 Olson Diary
March 24, 1945 Travel Orders
March 24, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
March 25, 1945 Letter to Zembra
March 25 - 29, 1945 Olson Diary
March 29, 1945 Quirk Letter
March 29, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
March 29, 1945 Cable 34
March 29, 1945 Cable 35
Late March, 1945 Time Magazine excerpt
March 30 - 31, 1945 Olson Diary
4. A Violent Contrast
April 1, 1945 Cable 37
April 1 - 4, 1945 Olson Diary
April 4, 1945 Cable 38
April 5, 1945 Olson Diary
April 5, 1945 Cable 36
April 5, 1945 Letter to Zembra
April 6, 1945 Cable 39
April 6, 1945 Cable 40
April 6 - 8, 1945 Olson Diary
April 8, 1945 Cable 41
April 9, 1945 Cable [unnumbered, a.]
April 9, 1945 Cable [unnumbered, b.]
April 9 - 11, 1945 Olson Diary
April 11, 1945 Cable 42
April 11, 1945 Cable 43
April 12 - 13, 1945 Olson Diary
April 13, 1945 Cable 44
April 13, 1945 Cable 45
April 14, 1945 Olson Diary
April 15?, 1945 Letter to Zembra
5. The Last Days
April 15 - 26, 1945 Olson Diary
April 26, 1945 Cable 46
April 27 - 29 Olson Diary
April 30, 1945 Cable 47
April 30, 1945 Cable 48
April 30 - May 1, 1945 Olson Diary
6. Victory in Europe
May 2, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
May 2 - 3, 1945 Olson Diary
May 3, 1945 Cable 49
May 2/3, 1945 Aberdeen News excerpt/Ridder
May 5 - 7, 1945 Olson Diary
May 5, 1945 Telegram from Luce
May 7, 1945 RCA Cable to Luce
May 7, 1945 Telegram from Luce
May 7, 1945 Cable [unnumbered]
May 10, 1945 Letter to Zembra
May 10, 1945 Memo from Billings
May 8 - 12, 1945 Olson Diary
May 12, 1945 Cable 53
May 13 - 17, 1945 Olson Diary
June 1, 1945 Travel Orders
June 4 - 10, 1945 Olson Diary
III. Post-War
July 16, 1945 Letter to Zembra
April 4, 1947 Novel notes
May 7, 1947 Letter from Gen. Courtney Hodges
Feb. 17, 1950 Letter to Luce
Feb. 17, 1950 Letter from Luce
IV. A New Beginning
Appendix
i. List of Correspondents, November 26, 1945
ii. Map: Jan. - June 1945
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography & Primary Sources
Index
About the Author

Recenzii

Following the Front: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson, edited by Margot Clark-Junkins, is an important new addition to our understanding of the Second World War in Europe.
This is a remarkably fresh and incisive account of what the war in Europe looked like during its final six months. With the insight and skilled prose of an accomplished journalist, Sidney Olson captured the heights and depths of the human experience during World War II.
Following the Front is a must read for anyone interested in gaining an intimate understanding of what the war in Europe looked like from various perspectives: the ordinary soldiers who fought it, the generals who led it, the journalists who reported it, and the civilians who suffered the most.
This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in gaining a first-hand account of what the final months of the war in Europe looked like. Through an edited collection of previously unpublished dispatches, private letters, and diary entries, Margot Clark-Junkins has provided the reader with a compelling account of how the war was experienced by accomplished journalist Sidney A. Olson.

Sidney Olson's dispatches to his editor at Time magazine and his letters to his family remind us of the risks taken by all war correspondents. As one of the first reporters to arrive at the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, Olson was a witness to the evil committed in service to a dictator. Though he suffered greatly in his reporting, he urges us not to look away, but instead to remember the devastation and the millions of lives lost. His words remain as timely and relevant today as when they were first written.
Margot Clark-Junkins is to be commended for this excellent compilation of journalist Sidney A. Olson's World War II dispatches. Olson covered the last months of the war for Time and Life magazines, from the final battles to the liberation of Dachau, and this is a welcome addition to a rich and growing body of literature on wartime journalism. Clark-Junkins, who is also Olson's granddaughter, has managed to find just the right balance between taut scholarship, and a labor of love. For readers drawn to first-person accounts of the war, this book is highly recommended.
Following the Front is informative and interesting, and as relevant as it is historical. These dispatches from the past illuminate our present and urgently remind us that journalists are too a part of the stories they strive to tell.
Olsen's brilliant dispatches and letters about the final months of World War II in Europe provide a gritty and insightful view of the last grisly days of the conflict.