GraniteGrok contributor discusses upcoming book project
Regular visitors to this blog should be familiar with the "And that's the way it was" series of posts by our fellow contributer to the Grok, Ken G. Ken's distant cousin, Henry Tilton Gorrell, a United Press International "war correspondent" who served in Europe from 1936 - 1945, wrote a series of memoirs from this experience. Ken has worked some of the material into some fantastic postings here, here, and here- with a promise of more to come.
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What is really great news is that Ken is now in the process of editing cousin Henry's never- before published 450 page manuscript into book form. If the postings are any hint (and I know they are), the book should be an exciting and informative read. Ken, who might be the first here at the 'Grok to hit the "bigtime", is giving a lecture about this project next Tuesday August 29th. If you happen to live here in NH, or visiting on vacation or business, you should try to attend. Here are the details:
Location: Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH 03894
August 29 – Ken Gorrell of Northfield, NH speaking on:
Eyewitness: A Journalist's View of War in Europe, 1936-1942
Ordered out of Italy by Mussolini, sentenced to death as a Fascist spy
by Republican forces in war torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman's
life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator on a mission over Benghazi: United
Press correspondent Henry "Hank" Gorrell experienced and chronicled the
terrors of war from Spain to North Africa, 1936 to 1942, in a memoir he
titled, "Eyewitness."
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Gorrell's memoir provides a first-hand account of battles and behind-
the-lines intrigue from the Spanish Civil War to the North African campaigns
of World War II. Never published, this 450-page manuscript is being edited
into a book sixty years after it was completed. The editor, Ken Gorrell,
will share segments from his cousin Henry's memoir - a time capsule
containing reflections and prognostications on the greatest conflict in
history before the outcome was certain.
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Written at a time when American journalists were considered part of the
national war effort, Henry Gorrell received "off the record" briefs on the
trust of a handshake and was "embedded" with troops in battle as an
integral part of his job. From the Fascist war machine's early tests in Spain
to Axis victories in the Balkans, the collapse of France and the Low Countries
and eventually American and British successes from Palestine to Tripoli,
Gorrell recorded fact and opinion in dispatches under his by-line and
under fire - to the United Press offices in New York and London.
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"Eyewitness" is a non-fiction history book that reads like a historical novel.
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Wright Museum website- click here.
Reservations must be made for each lecture by calling (603) 569-1212.
All lectures are held in the museum theater and are from 7-9pm.
Admission is free to museum members and $5 per person per lecture for non-members.
All lectures are held in the museum theater and are from 7-9pm.
Admission is free to museum members and $5 per person per lecture for non-members.
