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Stenbuck,Jack, ed. Typewriter Battalion: Dramatic Frontline Dispatches from World War II. New York: William Morrow,1995. 397pp. $23
It has become fashionable to republish World War II correspondence by famous reporters. Typewriter Battalion is another of these collected essays. In times when media-military relations often spell controversy, these collections remind us that relative harmony once prevailed between the pen and the sword.
This book includes some great war correspondence. The editor has selected breathtaking reports, including E.Z. Dimitman's (Chicago Sun) account of the visit by Germans to the Dachau concentration camp and their appalled reaction to the horrible...