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- Title
"You didn't see him lying ... beside the gravel road in France": Death, Distance, and American War Politics.
- Authors
Dudziak, Mary L
- Abstract
The article explores the different sensory experience between American civilians and those in war zones of the World War II, in which civilians became engaged through reading stories of death and destruction in newspapers and magazines, and saw terrible photographs. It highlights the media coverage of the war, through war correspondent Ernie Pyle, photographer George Strock, historian Mark Smith, and other writers. The author claims war breaks social life into categories, fracture time itself, and breaks human communities into groups with different experiences and sensibilities, such as allies and enemies, and soldiers and civilians. It mentions the call for unity of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose administration allowed and promoted gruesome images of American casualties.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORLD War II in the press; WORLD War II casualties; WORLD War II -- Photography; CIVILIANS in World War II; PYLE, Ernie, 1900-1945; STROCK, George; SMITH, Mark; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; WORLD War II -- Military intelligence
- Publication
Diplomatic History, 2018, Vol 42, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0145-2096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/dh/dhx087