Among journalists of two generations - and particularly war correspondents - Homer Bigart was both legend and example. In a career of four decades, first with the New York Herald Tribune and then, through 1972, with The New York Times, Bigart distinguished himself as a superb writer and tireless digger for the realities that could be learned only in the field and not at headquarters. In 1943 Bigart sailed for England to cover the air war and was soon on muleback in. Sicily, and hanging on at Anzio. He then went to the Pacific, where his dispatches won him his first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. When hostilities erupted in Korea he was again on the front lines in the Orient, and again recipient of a Pulitzer. By the time of the American involvement in Vietnam, he was an old-timer, a seasoned correspondent admired and celebrated for his wit but regarded with awe for his masterly stories, in which straightforward prose.

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Foreword / Harrison E. Salisbury -- Introduction / Betsy Wade -- World War II, Europe. Army Exercises, New York State, August 1940. Troopship to Britain, January 1943. Eighth Air Force Bombs Germany, February 1943. Assessing Raid Coverage, March 1943. Sicily, July 1943. Fall of San Pietro, December 1943. Anzio Censorship, February 1944. Green Troops at Anzio, March 1944. Assessment of Anzio, March 1944. Taking Cassino, May 1944. Entering Rome, June 1944 -- World War II, the Pacific. Leyte, a Different Kind of War, November 1944. Bringing Bacon Home to Leyte, December 1944. Landing on Corregidor, February 1945. Freeing Luzon Prisoners, February 1945. The Cost of Iwo Jima, March 1945. Japanese Air Strike on Okinawa, April 1945. Bombing Aomori, July 1945. Last U.S. Air Raid, August 1945. Over Nagasaki, August 1945. Surrender, September 1945. In Hiroshima, September 1945 -- Cold War, Hot War. Mistrust in Warsaw, June 1946. British Take Jews off Schooner, February 1947. Jewish Underground Recruits, May 1947. Britons Hanged by Jewish Terrorists, July 1947. Finding Markos, June-July 1948 -- Korean War. From a Foxhole, July 1950. Landing at Pohang, July 1950. Walker's Stand-or-Die Order, July 1950. Firing on Reds, August 1950. Jeep Ambushed, September 1950. Marines at Inchon, September 1950. The Great Retreat, December 1950. Bigart Accused of Undermining MacArthur, November 1951 -- Guatemala. Covering a Non-War, June 1954 -- Middle East. Israelis Mop Up in Gaza, November 1956. Yemen Opens Up in War With British, January 1957. Yemeni Ambush, February 1957. Israelis and Syrians Exchange Captives, March 1958 -- Eichmann Trial. Israelis Anxious, April 1961. Testimony on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, May 1961 -- Vietnam War. U.S. Destroys Foliage, January 1962. DDT Killed the Cats That Ate the Rats, January 1962. Airlifting Pigs, February 1962. Reds Elude Trap, March 1962. The Talk of Saigon and an Expulsion Order, March 1962. Isolating Rural Villages, March 1962. Setting Up Fortified Towns, March 1962. Reds Still Winning, April 1962. The Mylai Trial, February 1971. Homer Bigart Obituary, New York Times / Richard Severo. I Worked With Him, House Organ Obituary / Betsy Wade. Technical Notes and Acknowledgments.