FOLLOWING THE FRONT: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson, Edited by Margot Clark-Junkins
Following the Front is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by journalist Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, 1944-1945 (published by Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury, September 2024). Olson, who joined Time Inc. in 1939 and served as a senior editor there, asked to be assigned overseas as a war correspondent. In mid-December, 1944, he […]
FOLLOWING THE FRONT: The Dispatches of World War II Correspondent Sidney A. Olson, Margot Clark-Junkins
Researcher and former journalist Margot Clark-Junkins collects the dispatches and personal writings of her grandfather, war correspondent for Time Inc Sidney A. Olson’s eyewitness accounts. Olson’s reports and observations chronicle the human story of the war in Western Europe from 1944-1945, documenting the taking of Nuremberg, the liberation of Dachau, the collapse of the Nazi […]