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Article: AN UP-FRONT, PERSONAL LOOK AT WORLD WAR II.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 21, 1995
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Byline: JUDITH SERRIN
In 1945, James Agee, reviewing newsreel footage of the Battle of Iwo Jima, wrote that he was troubled by ``these terrible records of war.'' It was almost pornographic, he wrote, to experience war any other way than by being there.
On this, Agee was wrong. And ``Reporting World War II,'' two volumes published to mark the 50th anniversary of the war's end, shows why. In the hands of the skilled journalists collected, ``these terrible records of war'' are anything but obscene: they are brave, they are celebratory, they are reminders of the awesome efforts of ordinary people, in and out of the military, who made the Allied victory ...
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