Richard Tregaskis (1916–1973)
Autor/a de Guadalcanal Diary
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Richard Tregaskis
Eyewitness to World War II : guadalcanal diary, invasion diary, and John F. Kennedy and PT-109 (2017) 6 exemplars
Rare Richard Tregaskis GUADALCANAL DIARY Random House Book Club c. 1943 [Hardcover] Richard Tregaskis 2 exemplars
Obres associades
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Tregaskis, Richard William
- Data de naixement
- 1916-11-28
- Data de defunció
- 1973-08-15
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Cremated, ashes scattered off of Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Hawaii, USA (drowned after heart attack)
- Llocs de residència
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (death)
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA (birth) - Educació
- Harvard University (BA|1938)
- Professions
- journalist
war correspondent
screenwriter - Relacions
- Tregaskis, Moana (second wife)
- Organitzacions
- International News Service
Boston American Record - Premis i honors
- George Polk Award (1964)
- Biografia breu
- Richard Tregaskis, born in New Jersey in 1916, was a war correspondent and author. Prevented by bad eyesight from enlisting in the armed forces during World War II, he covered both the Pacific and European theaters as a correspondent and was badly wounded in Italy. He chronicled his wartime experiences in many books, including "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) and "Invasion Diary" (1944). The bulk of his career was spent reporting on events in Asia and Oceania. Tregaskis covered nine wars, including the Chinese Civil War, Korean, and Vietnam War. He also wrote poetry, novels, biographies, magazine articles, and screenplays for motion pictures and television. Tregaskis drowned near Honolulu in 1973.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 18
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 1,418
- Popularitat
- #18,141
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 20
- ISBN
- 49
- Llengües
- 1
The book was published in 1943 and gave Americans at home a bird’s-eye view of the battle in the Pacific as he lived alongside the soldiers and experienced all that they did. Morale was high even though they were dealing with night raids, snipers and bombing attacks. Even dealing with disease, lack of food and sleep, he was able to let America know that their “boys’ were performing well.
Guadalcanal Diary is frontline reporting at it’s best. Written in diary form, there is very little about “me” or “I”. It’s all about the soldiers. The story is engrossing and historically accurate, written in simple prose that highlights the slang of the day and grounds the book in reality. This is an honest and compelling account of what the Marines were facing as they fought and liberated this small corner of the Pacific.… (més)