"Don Whitehead is one of the legendary reporters of World War II. For the Associated Press he covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe - from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, to the drive into Germany and on to victory. His dispatches, published in the recent Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism." "From the fall of September 1942, as a freshly minted AP journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, Whitehead kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Back home later, Whitehead started, but never finished, a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat."

From Manhattan to Cairo, September-October 1942 -- Cairo journal, October-November 1942 -- In pursuit of Rommel (Libya), November 1942-February 1943 -- Victory in Tunisia, March-April 1943 -- Sicily, July-August 1943 -- Afterword: Command Sergeant Major Ben Franklin.