Ebook {Epub PDF} My War by Andy Rooney

 · The late CBS News "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney discussed his book "My War" reissued by PublicAffairs books with a new foreword by Tom Brokaw. Mr. Roo. Andy was dragged into this war after finishing college, the good news is he wasn’t in the ‘Army’ for very long and was transferred to the Stars and Strips a newspaper for the ETO soldiers. Andy spent a lot of his starting days in the war with the th Airborne and has a ton of great stories that you really have to read twice before you get the gravity of how any of this could be real/5(). Andy Rooney was a war correspondent and journalist for the Stars and Stripes, in February he was selected as one of eight journalists to accompany the 8th Air Force flying bombing missions over Germany. After a week's extensive training, Rooney joined a bomber crew flying over Wilhelmshaven on 26 February , his aircraft was hit by flak.

Andy Rooney, Janu - Andrew Rooney was born Janu in Albany, N.Y. He attended Colgate University until he was drafted into the Army in In February , he was one of six correspondents who flew with the Eighth Air Force on the first American bombing raid over Germany. After the War, he wrote for "The Garry Moore. This is classic Andy Rooney and a wonderful coming of age tale that any American would enjoy. I have had the book for many years, and, when rereading it, ordered this 20th century classic as a Kindle book to enjoy it with 21st century convenience. My War. Read more. 3 people found this helpful. The late CBS News "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney discussed his book "My War" reissued by PublicAffairs books with a new foreword by Tom Brokaw. Mr. Roo.

Overview. My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the Liberation, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. My War was written in and is a first-person memoir of his experiences during the Second World War mainly as a combat correspondent for the Stars and Stripes military newspa Andy was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from to One of America's favorite commentators writes a moving, funny, and highly evocative account of his life as an Army private and Stars and Stripes reporter during World War II. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, My War features endpapers showing dispatches and photos taken during the war.