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Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
Ray Moseley
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Description for Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
Hardback. An enthralling account of World War II across all its theaters through the eyes and experiences of the top journalists who witnessed it Num Pages: 440 pages, 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTB; HBWQ; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 42. Weight in Grams: 896.
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in an exhilarating parallel narrative, the events across every theater-Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan-as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. ... Read more
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in an exhilarating parallel narrative, the events across every theater-Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan-as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
896g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300224665
SKU
V9780300224665
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About Ray Moseley
Ray Moseley enjoyed a long career as a foreign, diplomatic, and chief European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, stationed in London, Washington, Berlin, Rome, Cairo, Belgrade, Moscow, and Nairobi. He lives in London.
Reviews for Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
A thorough volume for journalism and World War II collections, and for readers interested in tales of bravery. -Library Journal
Library Journal
[Reporting War] tells the stories of dozens of correspondents from the United States and Allied nations. Moseley's richly detailed narrative celebrates these men - and women - who put their lives on the line (and, ... Read more
Library Journal
[Reporting War] tells the stories of dozens of correspondents from the United States and Allied nations. Moseley's richly detailed narrative celebrates these men - and women - who put their lives on the line (and, ... Read more