"This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country's neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy."--back cover

Learning and adapting : the American media and the "phony war," September 1939-April 1940 /Steven Casey -- Helen Kirkpatrick's reporting to undercut Irish neutrality policy, 1939-1942 / Karen Garner -- Miss Bonney reporting from the Arctic Front / Henry Oinas-Kukkonen -- Reporting from the bureaus : the lesser-known World War II correspondents / Kendall Cosley -- Two African American journalists confront World War II : perspectives on nationalism, racism, and identity / Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier -- Bylines and bayonets : how United States Marine Corps combat correspondents in World War II blended journalism and public relations / Douglas K. Daniel -- Reporting reconnaissance to the public : a comparative analysis of Canadian and American strategies / Victoria Sotvedt -- Outstanding and conspicuous service : Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater / Carolyn M. Endy -- A "butcher and bolt" force : Commandos, Rangers, and newspaper dramatics in World War II / James Austin Sandy -- "A major readjustment" : Omar Bradley's war against the Stars and Stripes / Alexander G. Lovelace -- After the shooting stopped : justice and journalism at Nuremberg / Nathaniel L. Moir.