Dress Rehearsal - The Story Of Dieppe

By Quentin Reynolds

Quentin Reynolds gets himself attached to the Dieppe raid (August 19, 1942) and tells us the story. The events of the book span only a few days, but Reynolds takes us on diversions ranging from a long excerpt of one of his Colliers pieces telling us why it's too early to open a second front to the miracle of plastic surgery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reynolds Press
• Release date: Apr 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781473388352

Quentin Reynolds

Quentin James Reynolds (1902-1965) was an American journalist and World War II war correspondent. As associate editor at Collier’s Weekly from 1933-1945, he averaged 20 articles per year. He also published 25 books, including The Wounded Don’t Cry (1941), London Diary (1941), Convoy (1942), and Dress Rehearsal (1943). After World War II, Reynolds was best known for his libel suit against right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler. Reynolds, represented by noted attorney Louis Nizer, won $175,001 (approximately $1.5 million in 2014 dollars), at the time the largest libel judgment ever. The trial was later made into a Broadway play, A Case of Libel, which was twice adapted as TV movies. Reynolds died in San Francisco, California on March 17, 1965, aged 62.