More than 50 journalists working for U.S. news organizations were killed covering World War II, including 35-year-old Tom Treanor of the Los Angeles Times. This is his story. It is also, in many ways, the story of the others who were killed on the battlefield in Europe and the Pacific between 1940 and 1945 - of their quest for adventure, their passion for the news despite the risks, and their constant longing for home. Like the others, of course, Treanor knew what he was doing. Yet he and the others were unable resist the tug of war. "Always," he wrote, "there is this hypnotic drag pulling...