Set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the last days of French colonial rule, THE QUIET AMERICAN was based partly on Graham Greene's own experiences in Vietnam as a correspondent for the London Times. The book's narrator is an English journalist named Fowler who lives in Saigon with his Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, but is unable to convince his ...
A biography of the celebrated American journalist and war correspondent. Pyle was perhaps the most famous of the overseas correspondents during the Second World War, and his death under fire in 1945 was mourned by Americans all across the globe. James Tobin, a prize-winning reporter for the Detroit News, provides a large selection of Pyle's ...
From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.
This book offers an adventurous, smart, empathetic look at world conflict and the future of media by a pioneer in journalism who has spent the past year covering the most dangerous areas in the world - without a crew. As Yahoo!'s first news correspondent, Kevin Sites spent the last year covering every major global conflict for "Kevin Sites in the ...
A wonderful and enduring tribute to American troops in the Second World War, "Here Is Your War" is Ernie Pyle's story of the soldiers' first campaign against the enemy in North Africa. With unequaled humanity and insight, Pyle tells how people from a cross-section of America-ranches, inner cities, small mountain farms, and college towns-learned to ...
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs. Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on ...
The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson war. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times of London, to the ranks of reporters, ...
In 1941, Curzio Malaparte was sent to cover the war in Russia as a correspondent for Corrier della Sera. His experiences there led him to write "Kaputt", a novel that has no equal among all those for which World War II was the inspiration. The protagonist of "Kaputt", and its main concern, is the Europe that gave birth to a horror without ...
A. J. Liebling's priceless dispatches sent back from Europe and North Africa to the "New Yorker" during the Second World War. Liebling's reportage covers not only the war but his inimitable observations on French and English life, cuisine, and people.
Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30, he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final ...
"Three Years with Grant is one of the great books of the Civil War."-Bruce Catton. "A superb reporter, insatiably curious, physically courageous, keenly perceptive, Cadwallader was relentless in his pursuit of the news. . . . The vignettes on Lincoln and Sheridan are especially graphic, while the surrender at Appomattox is handled with great ...
In this collection of 60 interviews, embedded journalists who covered the 2003 War in Iraq provide many harrowing accounts of war and high-risk situations, while also reflecting on the pros and cons of the Pentagon's embed policy.
Since the founding of the United States, war has been a recurring phenomenon in American history. We have fought for many reasons: independence, national unity, manifest destiny, international democracy. Americans have fought in almost every corner of the world, from deserts to mountains to jungles. And in every war on every front, we have paid ...
This Vietnam War memoir is by a former CBS News correspondent who covered the war from the mid-'60s through 1970. He provides you-are-there coverage of the battlegrounds--including the bloody battle of Hue--as well as anecdotes about fellow journalists.
In a classic memoir of the sixties and seventies, Tim Page tells the story of how he came to Vietnam, overcame devastating injuries, lived among the gonzo, the strange and the brilliant in Northern California, and where he went from there. Two 8-page photo inserts.
Who was the special correspondent whose report shocked the world, galvanized Picasso into painting "Guernica", and earned him a place on the Gestapo's "Special Wanted List"? On April 26th 1937, amid the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their reports. But one journalist spent an extra day exploring the ...
A young woman journeys deep into the untamed jungle, wrestling with love and loss, trauma and healing, faith and redemption, in this sweeping debut novel.
War is hell. It is also suffering, courage, fear, nobility, depravity, honor, death. War in all its aspects, from the tragic to the horrific to the heroic, is vividly depicted in this riveting volume of dispatches by established authors like Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway, who turned their literary hand to, ...
A biography of the man who, like Oskar Schindler, successfully spared almost 2,000 lives from the hands of the Nazis during World War II. In 1940, Varian Fry assisted in bypassing the Germans using various tactics, including creating false identities for many people. He facilitated the departure of many prominent intellectuals and artists from ...
Now re-issued, this highly acclaimed and beautifully written book by one of Australia's finest chroniclers of the Second World War tells the devastating story of war from the inside. Based largely on the author's own war diary and the articles he wrote as a war correspondent, this deeply personal account is unparalleled amongst the vast literature ...
This riveting firsthand chronicle of a Marine journalist on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II was made possible after Stavisky joined a unique unit of rifle-toting writers called the Combat Correspondent Corps. He gives a heart-pounding, eye-witness account of hellish battles and American heroism.
In the same colorful eye-of-the-Desert-Storm way in which he reported the drama and dangers of the Gulf War, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett now shares his adventures, gambles, dangers, and glory in a brilliant memoir.
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