Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1944.

National Review | November 6, 1995| | Copyright

"THE real war will never get in the books," Walt Whitman wrote in Specimen Days. This sentiment is echoed throughout Reporting World War II, the Library of America's superlatively edited new collection of wartime journalism. Time and again, those who were paid to tell Americans about the war confessed in print their feelings of inadequacy. Even Bill Mauldin, whose Up Front (reprinted in its entirety here) is perhaps the most vivid chronicle of its kind, felt unable to explain to civilians the essence of war:

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