{"title":"Ray E. Boomhower","description":"Ray E. Boomhower is a senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press. His books include The Soldier's Friend: A Life of Ernie Pyle,  Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod,  and Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam (UNM Press).","products":[{"product_id":"indiana-originals-hoosier-heroes-heroines-hardcover","title":"Indiana Originals: Hoosier Heroes \u0026 Heroines - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoosier history overflows with bold visionaries, noble heroes and lovable rogues. May Wright Sewall struggled to uplift womankind and unflinchingly called for peace in a world sleepwalking toward conflict. In the guise of Abe Martin, Kin Hubbard graced the Indianapolis News's back page for twenty-six years with folksy humor. Combat photographer John A. Bushemi bravely faced the terrors of war and perished capturing its violence. Audacious automotive pioneer Carl G. Fisher went to any length to promote himself, even flying a car via a hot-air balloon. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, author Ray E. Boomhower, the dean of Hoosier biographers, brings together forty of the most notable figures from the nineteenth state.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377948885215,"sku":"9781540236821","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Lm4M2FUhZ09781540236821.webp?v=1789243657"},{"product_id":"richard-tregaskis-reporting-under-fire-from-guadalcanal-to-vietnam-paperback","title":"Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Tregaskis was one of only two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, and in his notebook he captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II's most legendary battles--and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, \u003ci\u003eGuadalcanal Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book \u003ci\u003eVietnam Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. Boomhower's riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis's gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434570285279,"sku":"9780826366993","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/CBPn0aNQSp9780826366993.webp?v=1790027908"},{"product_id":"stronger-than-fear-paperback","title":"Stronger Than Fear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Bravery and honor and decency cannot and will not die' --but it took Paul Krieder a bitter battle with fear before he proved it with the supreme sacrifice...This small book -- no longer than A Walk in the Sun, and with somewhat that same market appeal -- gives one a sense of intimate knowledge of what war is today, in terms of fighting an unseen enemy in devastated towns, where a sniper's bullet may catch the fighting man unaware. It is a story told around a Captain Krieder, winner of the Purple Heart, now finding himself on the jittery edge of collapse when confronted with another day of house to house, street by street, fighting, and the necessity of pushing his platoon over more territory than he had keyed himself to in a German town where the foe had not yet realized how few were the assailants. He found himself hunting excuses to hide -- to take shelter -- to go back to headquarters. But Jerry Bull, one time schoolmate, and now parachuter, steadies him at the exact moment when \"battle fatigue\" might have proved too great. His innate gallantry won over the urge to return to safety and Suzy and the baby he had not seen -- and he went forward, and won. A holding story of one segment of war that is repeated a thousand times in Europe today. Tregaskis' name will win a very special audience for this.\" -Kirkus Reviews, 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67578995605727,"sku":"9781736295465","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/13mbWmR1Wk9781736295465.webp?v=1790410951"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ray-e-boomhower.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}