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A. J. Liebling
World War II Writings
Book Summary
A collection of World War II accounts by the influential journalist and author of Why Sinatra Matters includes The Road Back to Paris, Mollie and Other War Pieces, and Normandy Revisited, in a volume that also features twenty-nine previously uncollected New Yorker articles. 10,000 first printing.
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This book is about:
- (Abbott Joseph),
- Liebling, A. J,
- Western Front,
- Europe, Western,
- Personal narratives, American,
- Campaigns,
- World War, 1939-1945
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Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'
December 16, 2008 For the first time in my life and probably the last, I have lived for a week in a great city where everybody is happy. Moreover, since this city is Paris, everybody makes this euphoria manifest.
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Liebling Collected in 'World War II Writings'
March 5, 2008 The Library of America has published World War II Writings, a new collection of stories by A.J. Liebling. The volume, edited by Pete Hamill, includes three books, two dozen New Yorker pieces, maps and a chronology.
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