Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 pm

Holbert Bradley

War Correspondent: From D-Day to the Elbe

Holbert Bradley (pictured above, May 1943, and left, September 2003), was a war correspondent with The Baltimore Sun during World War II. Mr. Bradley traveled with U.S. forces (29th Infantry Division -- the "Blue and Gray") and covered day-to-day life of the soldiers, as well as their many battles, including D-Day.

Mr.  Bradley's frontline stories of the Twenty-ninth Division, stationed in Europe, became a daily Baltimore Sun must-read. Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of families, friends, and lovers followed Bradley's reports as the chronology of Hitler's defeat unrolled.

Now Bradley retells his story in a far more personal narrative. War Correspondent tells the intimate details of his life as a correspondent fully "embedded" in a division that successfully completed every mission assigned to it, at a cost of thousands of dead and wounded. From the beaches of Normandy to the crossing of the Rhine and the early duties of occupation, Bradley chronicles the collapse of a nation physically destroyed by hubris and a war that changed the face of Europe.

Mr. Bradley is a recipient of the purple heart.