The weekly war [electronic resource] : how the Saturday evening post reported World War I / Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy.

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"An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America's largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation's best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record P...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dubbs, Chris (Military historian) (Author)
Edy, Carolyn M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Saturday evening post (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1839)
American periodicals > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Press coverage > United States.
World War, 1914-1918 > Journalism, Military > United States.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Mass media and the war.
Reporters and reporting > United States > Sources.
War in mass media > Sources.
Genre:
Personal narratives, American.
Sources.
Online Access:
Project MUSE eBooks: 2023 (Project MUSE @ John Hopkins University)
Variant Title:
The Weekly War: How The Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The Post Dives In, 1914-1915:
  • The Team and the Times, 1914-1915
  • Approaching the Battlelines:
  • "A Ship Without a Port" / Samuel G. Blythe
  • "Looking for War in a Taxicab" / Irvin S. Cobb
  • "The Women of France" / Corra Harris
  • The Shock of War: "A Reserved Seat " / Irvin S. Cobb
  • "The Bravest of the Brave" / Corra Harris
  • "No Man's Land" by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Civilization Ablaze: "The Toll" / Samuel G. Blythe
  • "Europe's Rag Doll" / Irvin S. Cobb
  • "Red Badge of Mercy" / Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A Growing Shadow of War, 1915-1916: The Team and the Times, 1915-1916
  • Beyond the Western Front: "The Singing Soldiers" / Samuel G. Blythe
  • "Day by Day in Constantinople" / Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • "On the Isonzo Front" / Will Irwin
  • Suffering Patiently Endured: "Getting Out the Wounded" / Will Irwin
  • "Seven Million Hornets" / Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • "Ward Eighty-Three" / Elizabeth Frazer
  • America Declares War, 1917-1918: The Team and the Times, 1917-1918
  • The Price to Pay: "Industrial Amazons" / Mary Brush Williams
  • "An Army of Homesick Old Men" / Herbert Corey
  • "When the Sea Asp Stings" / Irvin S. Cobb
  • Building the Army: "Under the Guns" / George Pattullo
  • "Striking Our Stride in France" / George Pattullo
  • "Homo Americanus in Gay Paree" / Elizabeth Frazer
  • America in the Fight: "The Spite Attack" / Elizabeth Frazer
  • "The Zero Hour" / George Pattullo
  • "When It Dawned" / Maude Radford Warren
  • The Aftermath, 1919: The Team and The Times, 1919
  • With the Post-Armistice Army: "The March into Germany" / Maude Radford Warren
  • "Ships of Destiny" by David Lawrence
  • "The Random Notes of an Amerikansky" / Kenneth L. Roberts
  • Peace in a Shattered World: "The Signature" / Elizabeth Frazer
  • "This to be Said for the Turk" / Eleanor Franklin Egan
  • "Ruins" / Elizabeth Frazer
  • Notes.