Dateline World-20 Dispatches from the Earth & One from Hell

<p class=ql-align-justify>A favorite shelf in my bookcase leads with <em>By-Line: Ernest Hemingway</em> a compendium of journalism the great novelist wrote to support himself as he worked on his fiction. Right next to it is <em>Ernie's War</em> dispatches by Ernie Pyle the most famous of World War II correspondents. Milton Nieuwsma's fine volume joins this shelf of honor. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>-From the foreword by Tom Stites two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editor/journalist</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Compassion and humility radiate from Milt's pen. I followed him to Auschwitz twenty-five years after he wrote his evocative account of the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the camp's liberation. His exhortation to listen to the stories of the survivors is a sample of his great writing: 'To turn away is to kill them a second time. But to listen is to confront the monster that lurks in the human soul.' A must read.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Malcolm Brabant correspondent PBS NewsHour; author <em>The Daughter of Auschwitz</em> </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Before he turned to writing for public television Milton Nieuwsma traveled the world covering stories for the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> and other major newspapers. This book is a compendium of 21 of his best pieces-20 from the earth and one from hell. He takes you to the Arctic and the Antarctic; to the Amazon and the Nile; to Auschwitz the scene of humanity's greatest crime and to a rural Mississippi courtroom where the acquittal of Emmett Till's killers sparked the civil rights movement. Milt Nieuwsma is a master of his craft writes Tom Stites. Its value still leaps out of the page at the reader.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>MILTON NIEUWSMA is a two-time Emmy Award-winning writer and creator of the acclaimed PBS programs <em>Surviving Auschwitz: Children of the Shoah</em> and <em>Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders</em>.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>TOM STITES is a former editor at the <em>Chicago Tribune </em>and <em>New York Times.</em></p><p><br></p>