The War Beat, Pacific
The American Media at War Against Japan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 September 2021
- ISBN 9780190053635
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 157x236x35 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 198
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Short description:
The War Beat, Pacific is the first book to use a wealth of previously untapped documents to provide a comprehensive account of the reporting of the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor and Bataan, through Midway and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, Leyte and Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
MoreLong description:
The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After almost two years slogging with infantrymen through North Africa, Italy, and France, Ernie Pyle immediately realized he was ill prepared for covering the Pacific War. As Pyle and other war correspondents discovered, the climate, the logistics, and the sheer scope of the Pacific theater had no parallel in the war America was fighting in Europe.
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The War Beat, Pacific provides the first comprehensive account of how a group of highly courageous correspondents covered America's war against Japan, what they witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front's perception of some of the most pivotal battles in American military history. In a dramatic and fast-paced narrative based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, Casey takes us from MacArthur's doomed defense on the Philippines and the navy's overly strict censorship policy at the time of Midway, through the bloody battles on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte and Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, detailing the cooperation, as well as conflict, between the media and the military, as they grappled with the enduring problem of limiting a free press during a period of extreme crisis.
The War Beat, Pacific shows how foreign correspondents ran up against practical challenges and risked their lives to get stories in a theater that was far more challenging than the war against Nazi Germany, while the US government blocked news of the war against Japan and tried to focus the home front on Hitler and his atrocities.
A nuanced and engaging narrative of the Pacific war in World War II....Steven Casey...untangles the complex challenges that reporters experienced from the moment they arrived on the vast front....The reporters were not sideline observers or members of a pool simply repurposing what they were told from official sources. They often put themselves at great risk and, along with the soldiers they accompanied, endured malnourishment, blistering heat and humidity, disease, endless insects, and enemy bullets and shells....With everything seemingly against them—a public distracted by the European war; military officials who viewed them with suspicion; or publishers who wanted something other than graphic or demoralizing coverage—the Pacific reporters did their jobs nonetheless....A timely reminder of what a democracy needs from an independent press in times of crisis.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Shrouded War
Chapter 1. The Paradox of Pearl Harbor
Chapter 2. Fiasco in the Philippines
Chapter 3. Censorship at Sea
Chapter 4. The New Guinea Gang
Chapter 5. The Shroud Slips: Guadalcanal
Part Two: Lifting the Veil
Chapter 6. Atrocities
Chapter 7. Dress Rehearsal in New Guinea
Chapter 8. Bloody Battles in the Central Pacific
Chapter 9. The Burma Backwater
Part Three: Vengeance
Chapter 10. The Return
Chapter 11. Death in the Pacific
Chapter 12. Endgame
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
