Tarawa
Subtitle: the story of a battle
By: [by] Robert Sherrod.
Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Description: "This is the story of what one reporter saw and heard and thought during one battle. No official documents have been consulted. I have relied entirely upon my memory of what happened only a few days ago on Tarawa, and upon my notebooks, which I started filling assiduously as soon after the landing as I could dry them out. Later it seemed ridiculous that I should have been scribbling in notebooks during that first day and a half on Tarawa when it seemed certain that I would never have the chance to write any stories from them. I suppose that it was because I felt quite hopeless to do anything else. I had a feeling that I should have been doing something to help win the battle, if possible. Yet there was nothing prescribed in a war correspondent's list of duties. So I sat there on our twenty-foot beachhead, back against the slender seawall that was our protection, fulfilling the nearest thing I had to a duty, while men were being killed all around me. This volume is the result"--Foreword.