{"product_id":"forward-positions-homer-bigart-9781557282576","title":"Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart","description":"\u003cp\u003e Among journalists--and particularly war correspondents--Homer Bigart was both legend and example. In a career of four decades, first with the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003eand then, through 1972, with \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 mule-back 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 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, informed by tenacious reporting, cut to the heart of the issues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Previously available only n crumbling library copies of the Tribune and the Times, or in microfilm repositories, his dispatches, with their rare insights into warefar and he minds of those who wage war, are now collected in \u003ci\u003eForward Positions: The War Correspondence of Home Bigart\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Betsy Wade and introduced by Harrison E. Salisbury, himself the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForward Positions\u003c\/i\u003e does honor to a breed of journalist that had passed into history by the time of Bigart's death. It includes one of the first accounts of the atomic annihilation of Hiroshima, a report on the war-crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, a number of dispatches on \"hot\" battles of the Cold War, and a probing dispatch on Lieutenant William Calley's testimony on the Mỹ Lai Massacre. With this representative selection of more than fifty of Bigart's accounts of war on the ground, in the air, and in the courtroom, Wade provides a wealth of background material about his career, as well as glimpses of his impact on journalism. The book promises hours of captivating and informative reading for journalists, historians, veterans, and anyone who likes a good story tautly told. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Homer Bigart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1557282579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781557282576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.36w x 1.14d","brand":"Homer Bigart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896850145535,"sku":"9781557282576","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e27e1ad-8345-49c5-9965-13d739f4eb2e.jpg?v=1721372491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forward-positions-homer-bigart-9781557282576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}