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...Long Holiday is his first-person story of 56 months spent in seven forced-labor and concentration camps, 118 days of that time in solitary confinement. In France, the book won the first Goncourt prize to be awarded in six years, sold over 200,000 copies within a year. No literary achievement, it is a thoughtful and simple account of man's courage and man's weakness under demoralizing brutality...
...Front Line. Each army, each front, each division has its own newspaper. These are accompanied by numerous "fighting leaflets," ranging from pure instruction ("How to Fight German Tanks") to first-person narratives ("How I Destroyed Four Tanks...
...only other newsman at Wayland when Hudson arrived was the editor of the Wayland weekly Register. Hudson talked first with a Wayland station employe, got an estimate of the casualties, plus a graphic, first-person eyewitness description of what had happened...
...week's news for you, boil it down, point it up, and fit it together into a clear, concise, sense-making, coherent narrative that you can read cover-to-cover in a single evening. In such a brief and balanced presentation there is seldom place for long, first-person reports...
Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...