Having read this book, ‘I feel that I understand war itself’
It took a while, but Michael Shaara found his subject – and his A game.
War + Peace
Joe Rosenthal and the flag-raising on Iwo Jima
Read Rosenthal’s own story about his picture of six U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi — perhaps the best-known Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
Homer Bigart goes to war
The New York Herald Tribune reporter covered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima — and went on to cover Korea and Vietnam as well
Four Pulitzer-winning takes on the rise of Adolf Hitler
The biggest running international story of the 1930s was the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. Today we share the work of four reporters who won Pulitzer Prizes for covering this story.
The first Pulitzer Prize for reporting
Some of the details may sound quaint today, but the story conveys the chilling disregard for human life that set the tone for the century to come.
A rough start for America’s war in the Pacific
As the United States observes Memorial Day, revisit New York Times correspondent Hanson W. Baldwin's Pulitzer-winning reporting on key World War II battles, including Guadalcanal.
Rewriting the rules of war: Terror aboard the Lusitania
The work that won the New York Tribune the first Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing was published in 1915. Writing on the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, Frank H. Simonds described the 'wanton murder' of 1,198 passengers — including 128 Americans.
For America in Vietnam, only anguish lies ahead
Years before the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, Robert Lasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote about the risks of keeping troops on the ground, and the policy implications of leaving.
Forty-five minutes on an oily sea
Jan. 10, 1942: An Associated Press reporter flees a sinking ship during a World War II sea battle on the Mediterranean, and lives to tell the harrowing tale
