This two-volume set of wartime journalism features familiar names--Hersey, Murrow, Pyle, Bourke-White, Steinbeck, Agee--and familiar places--the Sudetenland, Poland, Paris, Yugoslavia, Guadalcanal, the Phillipines, Berlin. Documentary history is inherently fascinating, but when you add the global impact of the events covered in these volumes you've got pair of books that are very hard to put down.

Harold Check