The New York Times Book of World War II, 1939-1945
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cited, 542
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 249, 332, 333
Yorktown (ship), sunk, 249
Young, mark, 232
Yugoslavia, coup in, 151
German invasion, 151, 159, 160
joining Tri-Partite pact, 151, 158
resistance, 267, 318, 403, 427–428, 453, 493
Tito government formed, 507, 590–591
Soviet influence in, 567
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Zeitz oil refineries bombed, 434
Zhukov, Marshal, 493, 536
Acknowledgments
The editor would like to gratefully acknowledge all the help in preparing the manuscript from the team at Black Dog Leventhal: JP Leventhal, Lisa Tenaglia and Pamela Schechter.
The publisher would like to thank Richard Overy for taking on this enormous project, Dwight Zimmerman for his thorough research, Sheila Hart for the wonderful design and all the hard work she put into it, and everyone at The New York Times who worked on this book, particularly Alex Ward and Mitchel Levitas.
The New York Times would like to thank Susan Beachy, Kristi Reilly, James Boehmer, Robert B. Larson, Barbara Gray, Jack Begg, Alain Delaqueriere and Heidi Giovine for their research and technological contributions, as well as Kenneth A. Richieri and Lee Riffaterre of The Times and Anthony Brito and Jonathan Fuhrman of The Associated Press for their advice and assistance.
1 Meyer Berger The Story of The New York Times 1851-1951 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951), pp. 447-8 and 570, Appendix II
2 Ibid., p. 476.
3 Howard Smith Last Train from Berlin (London: Cresset Press, 1942), pp. 62-3. Smith worked for the United Press in Berlin.
4 On America see G. H. Roeder The Censored War: American Visual Experience during World War II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), pp. 20-1, 25; Aaron William Moore, Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 183-5.
5 Raymond Daniell Civilians Must Fight (New York: Doubleday, 1941), p. 17.
6 George Gedye ‘Vienna Waltz’ in Hanson Baldwin and Shepard Stone (eds.) We Saw It Happen: The News Behind the News That’s Fit to Print (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939), p. 34.
7 Otto Tolischus Tokyo Record (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943), pp. 254-5.
8 Daniell, Civilians Must Fight, preface by W. Somerset Maugham, p. viii.
9 Berger The Story of The New York Times, pp. 462-6, 503.
10 Ibid., pp. 489-92
11 Daniell Civilians Must Fight, pp. 13-14, 15.
12 Baldwin, Shepard (eds) We Saw It Happen, pp. 200-1. See too Berger The Story of The New York Times, pp. 531-2.
13 Harold Callender A Preface to Peace (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1944), p. 247.
14 “Eigjhteen Fateful Days”, The New York Times, 19 August 1945.
15 Tolischus Tokyo Record, p 257.
16 RAF Museum, London, Harris Papers H28, Sulzberger to Harris, 21 Sept 1942. Harris wrote at the foot of the letter ‘The publicity and technical quality of the N.Y. Times is grand’.
17 Berger The Story of The New York Times, pp. 469-71.
18 “Pravda Ridicules Times War Writer”, The New York Times, 10 April 1944.
19 “New League Starting with Good Prospects”, The New York Times, 15 October 1944.
20 “Negro Unit at Bastogne”, The New York Times, 29 January 1945.
21 “Himmler Program Kills Polish Jews”, The New York Times, 18 December 1942.
22 Susan Tifft and Alex Jones The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times (New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1999), pp. 216-18.
23 Laurel Leff Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 164, 358
24 “Soviet-Nazi Deal Held More Likely than Clash”, The New York Times, 12 June 1941.
25 Berger The Story of the New York Times, p. 437.
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