Research Catalog

Title

Yank, the Army weekly : reporting the greatest generation / Barrett McGurn.

Author

McGurn, Barrett.

Publication

Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2004.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 257 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Here is the story of the world's first global periodical - reaching troops on six continents - and history's most successful U.S. Army publication. Yank, The Army Weekly, was a phenomenon of World War II that provided an insight into the nature of the American soldier that always will be valid. It provided an irreverent and honest account of the sharing, suffering, and frustrations of 14 million civilians in uniform during World War II."--Jacket.

Subject

• McGurn, Barrett
• Yank
• World War, 1939-1945 > Journalism, Military > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American
• Soldiers > United States > Biography
• War correspondents > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives – American

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Staffer -- A Racket -- Making a GI -- Dear God, How Long? -- Join MacArthur -- Back Home -- Voice of the Soldier -- Thumbs Up from On High -- A Bastard Before Lunch -- Pratfalls -- Turn Around -- Smell the Japs -- Out of the Office -- The Sack -- The Girl Next Door -- GI Mind -- Gallows Humor -- Unpolished Brass -- That Crazy George -- Mirror of War -- Twenty-One Magazines -- Liberating Switzerland -- Drawing a War -- Closer Than Artillery Range -- All My Writers -- Scoops -- Send Back the Story -- 6,000 Applicants -- Owed to the Brass.

ISBN

1555912966 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004015483

OCLC

• 55870892
• SCSB-11393056

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library