Front Lines to Headlines (eBook)

The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins

James J. Heiman (Autor)

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2019
502 Seiten
Mid-Continent Public Library (Verlag)
978-1-942337-09-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Front Lines to Headlines: The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins by James J. Heiman is a narrative review of the complete collection of 218 overseas World War I dispatches, which includes a sampling of dispatches and 42 field photographs.Both the dispatches and the photographs were created by embedded divisional correspondent Otto P. Higgins and published in The Kansas City Star between May 1918 and July 1919.Descriptions of the dispatches are presented in narrative form in the book and organized sequentially in monthly installments by date of composition, followed by a representative sampling of photographs and intact articles.

Inhalt

Foreword

Introduction

Prologue—The Style Sheet, The Star Man, and The Censor

1—The Star’s Own Correspondent—April 1918

2—In British Ports—May 1918

3—From Paris—May – June 1918

4—Behind the Lines and at Belleau Wood—June 1918

5—In the Vosges—July 1918

6—Through Alsatian Days—August 1918

7—At St. Mihiel and in the Argonne—September 1918

8—With the 35th—October 1918

9—On the Way to the End—November 1918

10—To Luxembourg with the 42nd—December 1918

11—Into Germany with the 42nd— January 1919

12—Back to the 35th— February 1919

13—While Packing Up-- March 1919

14—On the Way Home—April 1919

15—Into Kansas City—May 1919

16—“From the Notebook of O.P.H.”—June 1919

17—At the End—July 1919

Epilogue—Remembering the War—Spring 1920—June 1965

Acknowledgments

OPH Timeline

Credits

Endnotes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2019
• Vorwort: J. Bradley Pace
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Schlagworte: Great War • Journalism • Kansas City • Kansas City Star • Otto P. Higgins • Overseas Dispatches • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-942337-09-4 / 1942337094
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942337-09-6 / 9781942337096