Europe Now
Subtitle: A First Hand Report
Publisher: Didier
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION xi; title: CHAPTER ONE; title: FLIGHT TO EUROPE; title: A Place on a Plane - "Captain" if Captured - Priorities Are Graded - Lifeboat Briefing - Flight Nurse - Bermuda - First Stop - Night Landing in the Azores 1; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: NORTH AFRICA; title: Casablanca - From Peace to War - Black Market in North Africa - Conditions in Tunis 14; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: ITALY'S DILEMMA; title: Zig-Zag Flight to Naples - The Ride to Rome - Blackout and Broadcast - Hotel Majestic in Wartime - First Contacts - Who Governs Rome? - Recreation Center for Soldiers - Visit to the Vatican - Private Audience - Political Interviews - Does Italy Want a King? - Visiting the Italian Front - Luncheon with General Alexander - At the Fifth Army Front - General Clark and his Pipe Line - Shops and Prices in Rome - Officers on Leave - At Mediterranean Command Headquarters - On Mussolini's Balcony 30; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: REBIRTH OF FRANCE; title: Desolation from the Air - Paris Ever Beautiful - The Ritz - Army Hotel - The Red Cross in Paris - Eisenhower - Wide Choice of Entertainment - Folies Bergeres - Shopping in Paris - Paris Papers - Talks with French Journalists - English - Language Newspapers - The French Parliament - The French Foreign Policy - France Solves her Transport Problems - Dinner at Prunier's 52; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: WESTERN FRONT; title: To the Front Via Rheims - The Front in Luxemburg - My First Buzz-Bombs - What Makes for Morale? - General Vandenberg's Headquarters - An Active Front - Talks with Civilians - Teamwork Between Air and Ground Forces - The Spirit of the Infantry - Traffic Identification - The Tenth Armored Division - A Successful Action - U.S. Military Government Aachen - Interview with a German Mayor - Currency Regulations - Rich and Poor in Aachen - Running the Aachen Bank - No Fraternization - Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda - Frontline Propaganda Leaflets - Who Travels the Highways? - Conditions in Luxemburg - Valuation Versus Stabilization - Transportation and Tires - Problem of French Finance - Who is a Collaborator? - U.S. Recognition Too Slow - "Resistance Psychology" - The Eighth Base Hospital - Trench Foot Appears 83; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: BELGIUM; title: Arrival in Belgium - Debate in the Belgian Senate - Communists in the Cabinet - Communist Influence Destructive - Antwerp Undamaged - Broadcasting from Holland - Talks with German Prisoners - Examining a Lieutenant - Germans after the War 119; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: UNFLINCHING BRITAIN; title: Ninety Minutes to London - First Drive Through London - London Streets Are Still Dark - Bombproof British - An Incident in London - Labor Party Conference - Labor Views on Germany - What Is Vansittartism? - Food in London Restaurants - British Opinion on Greece - The Eden - Churchill Team - Disarming of Resistance Forces - The Eighth Air Force - Where Every Second Counts - Reverse Lend-Lease - Weather Service - What the Air Force Has Done - Decline of the German Air Force - Radar - Word of Mystery - Starting for Home - Delayed by Weather - Off for Scotland - Luncheon in Scotland - Dinner in Iceland - A One World Symbol 133; title: CHAPTER EIGHT; title: SUMMING UP; title: New Conflicts Loom in Europe - No Normalcy for Europe - How Long de Gaulle? - Britain - Democracy's Best Hope - Unhappy Italy - The Place of the Vatican - The Men Who Fight for Us 165; title: EPILOGUE 179; title: INDEX 183