A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism.From September 1942, as a freshly minted Ass...

Border Guard, first published in 1963 by Pulitzer-winning journalist Don Whitehead, is a look at the efforts of the U.S. Customs Service (now U.S. Customs and Border Protection) to secure America's borders and ports of entry from illegal items and to collect duties. (As noted by the author, before the implementation of the federal income tax, customs duties were the only source of revenue for the government.) Chapters deal with the major issues facing the Service,...

One of the most serious problems confronting the Customs Service in this century is the control of the illegal importation of narcotics. Some of the difficulties involved in handling dope smuggling can be seen when it is realized that these drugs are being sent from all over the world, by every means of international transportation. The comparatively small number of Customs agents rely on patience, diligence and intelligence, and they are doing a remarkable job. Since this problem is so im...

“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick AtkinsonWinner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead is one of the legendary reporters of World War II. For the Associated Press he covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings...

You Just Don't Know is the powerful and deeply personal story of Lorenzo Rennie Whitehead-a man forged by hardship, elevated by martial discipline, and transformed by a relentless pursuit of purpose.From a childhood marked by a speech impairment and growing up in Miami's toughest neighborhoods, to becoming a 10th-degree black belt and a decorated police commander, Rennie's life is a testament to resilience, honor, and faith. This memoir takes readers through gripping episo...

This book is a collection of true stories giving a glimpse into the strange and wonderful life of a small church pastor. In it you will find the good, the bad and the really, really ugly. With back stabbing parishioners, visits to Nursing Homes that belong in the third world, constant pressure to put more bodies in the pews and dollars in the plate, local churches stealing parishioners from each other, ministers whose egos are as wide as an ocean, as well as ministers who get fired for not...

This book "Inner Eye" is a collection of beautiful and deep-meaning poems from poets around the world. It is a mix of both short and long poems. All those people who love to dive into the world of poetic description with an imaginative approach will love this book for sure. Test your hidden imagination powers and procreate a hypothetical world of your poet's description.A deep-meaning, strongly imaginative, and a must once in a life reading book for poem lovers. Also, an essential ...

This book is design to inspire and encourage every reader that's going through sickness, disabilities, cituations, circumstances, test, trials or tribulations to set a goal for your life. Plant it, Water it, Nurture it and watch it grow.Don't let your cituations determine your future. Be the best that God created you to be. Have no regrets, live life to the fullest.Put God first in everything that you do, and if you fall get back up and try again.Believe and you shall accomplish wh...

‘Funny, smart and fresh’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A unique and very different take on the traditional RomCom . . . I adored Fliss and her relationship with Ash’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐* * *What if The One isn’t the only one?After nine years of dating, Holly is sure Will is going to propose. Instead, he shocks her by suggesting they open their relationship and date other people.For the last three years, Fliss and Ash have been in a happily open relationship. B...