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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
It is Dharan Palace Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1991. The US forces are massing on the border with Iraq, preparing to overthrow Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Men and materials are arriving daily, there are rumours of SCUD missiles, talk of the possibility of chemical attack, but in fact, nothing is really happening. With no story to report, the press is ...
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 ...
At a time when most Americans ignored the atrocities going on in Europe in 1940, American journalist Varian Fry put himself in great danger to save strangers in a foreign land. He was instrumental in the rescue of more than 2,000 refugees, including novelist Heinrich Mann and artist Marc Chagall. Photos.
"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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
At 26, Alan Moorehead escaped from the Melbourne suburbs to Europe and the shimmering pre-war days of London and Paris. He was in England when Edward VIII abdicated, in Paris during the last gay days of the thirties, and was sent to Spain on a tanker smuggling petrol. This is not only the story of Moorehead's own adventures, but of his friendship ...
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.
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.
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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