BOOKS FOR WARTIME tM BERLIN DIARY
The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer ASSIGNMENT TO BERLIN
by Harry W. Flannery MOSCOW WAR DIARY
by Alexander Werth PREL UDE TO VICTORY
by James B. Reston CRISIS IN THE PHILIPPINES
by Catherine Porter JAPAN'S INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
by Kate L. Mitchell THE JAPANESE ENEMY
His Power and His Vulnerability
by Hugh Byas
THESE ARE BORZOI BOOKS
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NEW YORK: ALFRED ·A· KNOPF
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Copyright 1942 by John Hersey All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Manufactured in the United States of America Published simultaneously in Canada by The Ryerson Press FIRST EDITION
THANKS AND A DEDICATION
Late in February 1942 the Library of Congress accorded to Douglas MacArthur an honor it had never previously given a living man. It drew up a bibliography listing 253 references on the General, mimeographed it, bound it, and released it publicly. Even Franklin Roosevelt is just an unbound sheaf of _typewritten notes, so far as the Library's bibliography section is concerned. The Library's MacArthur bibliography, though far from complete, is the best in existence. It would be impossible for me to acknowledge here my debt to every person who has helped in the preparation of the parts of this book which concern the General. Most, I am sure, would prefer not to be thanked by name, for they were friends of his and relatives, old schoolmates, classmates at West Point, men who are on the active list of the Army or are officials of the Interior or War Departments. They will know who they are and how grateful I am. The sketches of men who fought in the Philippines are based on letters from and interviews with their families. As for the sections on the Philippines, I have used dispatches which appeared in the press, in Time, and in Life. I have drawn heavily on the magnificent cables to Time
DEDICATION
Inc. from Melville Jacoby, much of whose material has not previously been published. And I have also used the early cables of Carl and Shelley Mydans, the Life team, who were captured by the Japanese in Manila. By their work on Luzon, Melville Jacoby, his wife Annalee, and the Mydanses have put themselves on a par with the bravest and rightest reporters of the war. This book is dedicated to them partly so they won't charge me with grand larceny, but mostly out of sincere admiration.
At the end of April, after this book had gone to press, Melville Jacoby was killed in an airplane accident near Darwin, Australia. At the time of his death, General MacArthur paid him this simple tribute, which any correspondent attached to armed forces would wish to have as an epitaph: "He covered his assignments with efficiency and devotion and fulfilled completely his obligations, both to the public press and to the military forces."
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