War Correspondent

<I>The Blue/Gray shoulder patch told us he was one of ours. He'd been hit in the left shoulder the uniform ripped and bloody a temporary bandage on the jagged tear which seemed to cover a quarter of his torso. That wax-like face eyes closed no sign of breathing will be with me until I die.</I></p><P>During World War II author Holbrook Bradley's frontline stories of the Twenty-ninth Division stationed in Europe became a daily <I>Baltimore Sun</I> must-read. Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of families friends and lovers followed Bradley's reports as the chronology of Hitler's defeat unrolled.</p><P>Now Bradley retells his story in a far more personal narrative. <I>War Correspondent </I> tells the intimate details of his life as a correspondent fully embedded in a division that successfully completed every mission assigned to it at a cost of thousands of dead and wounded. From the beaches of Normandy to the crossing of the Rhine and the early duties of occupation Bradley chronicles the collapse of a nation physically destroyed by hubris and a war that changed the face of Europe.</p>