Steven Casey is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany (OUP, 2001); Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics and Public Opinion (OUP, 2007); When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Casualties (OUP, 2014); and The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan (OUP, 2021).

• Introduction Chapter 1. Going to War Part 1: North AfricaChapter 2. Invasion, 1942 Chapter 3. The Advent of Ernie Chapter 4. Defeat at Kasserine Chapter 5. Victory in Tunisia Part 2: Bombing GermanyChapter 6. How-I-Almost-Got Killed-Today Stories Chapter 7. A High-Octane Outfit Chapter 8. Dark Days Part 3: Sicily and ItalyChapter 9. Invasion, 1943 Chapter 10. An Antidote to Complacency Chapter 11. Death in Winter Chapter 12. Anzio and Cassino Part 4: OverlordChapter 13. Fear Lay Blackly Deep DownChapter 14. Invasion, 1944Chapter 15. Normandy StalemateChapter 16. BreakoutPart 5: VictoryChapter 17. To Germany's BordersChapter 18. Blackout on the BulgeChapter 19. Into the ReichChapter 20. Unconditional SurrenderNotesBibliographyIndex

World War II has been covered so extensively it is rare to find a book that breaks new ground. In The War Beat, Europe, Steven Casey explores a largely overlooked topic from an original perspective. Casey dives deep into the collaboration and dissention among these individuals to confront the stereotype that the media and military acted in lock-step to present a sanitized view of the war and maintain public support.... For all its deep research, historical heft, and fidelity to truth, the book has anengaging narrative flow that compels the reader on to each succeeding chapter. This is attributable, in part, to finely drawn sketches of people involved that facilitate the reader feeling as if one is in the shoes of an Ernie Pyle in combat with his beloved infantry men, or among the Writing Sixty-Ninth, getting ready to fly on a bombing run.