{"product_id":"wellers-war-a-legendary-foreign-correspondents-saga-of-world-war-ii-on-five-continents","title":"Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Cronkite called him one of our best war correspondents. His stories from Europe  Africa  Asia  and the Pacic during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now  George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless  intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited by his son  Wellers War provides an eyewitness look at modern historys greatest upheaval  and also contains never-published reporting alongside excerpts from three books. From battlefront to beachhead  Weller incisively chronicles the heroism and humanity that still managed to triumph amid horric events.  Following the Nazi seizure of Eastern Europe and his own quarantine in Greece by the Gestapo  George Weller accompanies Congolese troops freeing Ethiopia for Haile Selassie. He remains in doomed Singapore until the colony falls. On Java  he watches brave American ghter pilots delay the islands collapse. Strafed by Japanese planes  he escapes by small boat to Australia. He covers the Pacic  from the Solomon Islands to the jungle hell of New Guinea. Back in Europe he sees a liberated Greece beset by civil war  then crosses the Middle East. In Burma  he risks guerrilla raids behind enemy lines. At the wars close  he hurries from China to a defeated but uncowed Japan  where new horrors await.  And he struggles throughout against a tireless adversarycensorship. Vivid and heart-stopping  the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are as intimate  memorable  and relevant today as they were nearly seventy years agoand demonstrate what it meant to be a foreign correspondent long before the era of satellite phones and the Internet.  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974323662901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307342034","price":62.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307342034.jpg?v=1770653877","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wellers-war-a-legendary-foreign-correspondents-saga-of-world-war-ii-on-five-continents","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}