SAN DIEGO, April 8, 2009 — Holbrook Bradley’s on-the-scene reporting for the Baltimore Sun of the men of the 29th Division in action during World War II was a daily “must-read” for hundreds of thousands of their families, friends and lovers. Eager to know how their loved ones were doing, they waited anxiously for each “Bradley Story” from the Sun as the chronology of Hitler’s defeat unrolled from 1943 to 1945.
Now this writer retells his story as a far more personal tale with intimate details of his life as a correspondent in a division that successfully completed every mission assigned to it, at a cost of thousands of dead and wounded. “War Correspondent from D-Day to the Elbe” (published by iUniverse) is Holbrook Bradley’s account of how he followed these men from the beaches of Normandy to the crossing of the Rhine and the early duties of occupation of a nation destroyed by hubris and a war that changed the face of Europe.
Bradley’s gripping tale helps those who remember World War II, or the later generations who have or are living through today’s wars, learn what it felt like to a young journalist to recount the intimate horror and glory that the young men next door experienced in a period when war was fought for a purpose in which they firmly believed.
About the Author
Bradley was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in 1916 and currently lives in San Diego. He graduated from Yale with a degree in archaeology and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve because of his fascination with the sea, ships and navigation. In 1941 he applied to rejoin the Navy but failed the eye exam, so he found work as a welder’s assistant and then a salesman. He met and married Sarah Bergen, who was the daughter of the managing editor of the Baltimore Sun, and was hired there first as a police reporter, then began a shipping column which earned acclaim, moving on to his position as war correspondent. He later worked for Life magazine before returning to Germany as an information officer, where he aided the emergence of the new German press, returned to San Francisco to work with the Asia Foundation which sent him to open offices in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. He returned to the State Department in 1962 as a Foreign Service officer and headed the Voice of America’s Far East news desk and the media desk of the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in Vietnam. He continues to enjoy writing.
“War Correspondent from D-Day to the Elbe”
Available from: www.iUniverse.com, www.bn.com, and www.amazon.com
iUniverse offers a variety of publishing services to help individuals publish, market and sell fiction, poetry and nonfiction books. The company utilizes print-on-demand technology, and is one of the largest self-publishing companies in the U.S. iUniverse is based in Bloomington, Indiana.
EDITORS: For review copies or interview requests, contact:
Promotional Services Department
Tel: 1-800-AUTHORS
Fax: 812-355-4078
Email:
(When requesting a review copy, please provide a street address.)
# # #
