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The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia

2 reviews
Jacques Leslie

Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995

Riveting Realism of the Conflicts in Southeast Asia
A must read for anyone wanting an honest, documented, and exciting story about what it was like being a war correspondent in Vietnam and Cambodia. What is outstanding about Leslie's writing is that he doesn't give in to the journalism game of giving the editors what they want to hear---He tells it like it is, and has a genius for getting his truth through the red-tape. His courage in going to ...

Confederate Correspondent: The Civil War Reports of Jacob Nathaniel Raymer, Fourth North Carolina
Jacob Nathaniel Raymer

McFarland & Company, 2008

Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent

9 reviews
John F. Burnett

Rodale Books, 2006

Consistently engaging
A consistently engaging set of accounts of major recent newsworthy events from the author's perspective. It's interesting to see the story behind the news headlines from such places as post-Katrina New Orleans, Waco, and post 9/11 Pakistan and Afghanistan, each told with wit and intelligence. His account of Guatemala during the 1980s is a highlight. A great blending of the facts around ...

The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
M. H. Abrams

W. W. Norton & Company, 1986

Marine Combat Correspondent: World War II in the Pacific

7 reviews
Samuel E. Stavisky

Ivy Books, 1999

Two Thumbs Up for Sam
As a member of Marine Corps Combat Correspondents for many years, and as a survivor of the battle for Guadalcanal, I can say that Sam's book is an authentic account of how it was. Over 50 years is a long time to remember details, but Sam is smart,and kept his notes which now jogs his memory. Considering the short time Stavisky was in the Marine Corps he had an opportunity to see just about ...

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941, an Unparalleled Eyewitness Account of ...

2 reviews
William L. Shirer

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2005

A New Edition of A Great Book
This is a great book and a terrific read. Originally published in 1941 by William L. Shirer, who worked in Berlin during the war with Edward R. Murrow and the radio team of Columbia Broadcasting System, it went on to sell almost 350,000 copies by August and remained at the top of the best-seller-list until after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shirer worked in Berlin at a time when all of the ...

The World on a String: How to Become a Freelance Foreign Correspondent

2 reviews
Alan Goodman, John D. Pollack

Holt Paperbacks, 1997

Practical and informative
Goodman tackles a broad subject with a concise eye for the practical approach to becoming a freelance foreign correpondent. He also might make it sound a little too easy, but I think his heart is in the right place and most of the book is realistic about what steps you should take before making the leap into the correspondent ring. Though still a college student, I have used much of Goodman's ...

The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel

65 reviews
Alan Furst

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

Evocation of another world
Furst is brilliant at character study, but more than that, he delivers you into another world. Pre-World II Europe becomes present. For anybody who's interested in those years of upheaval, extraordinary courage as well as human frailty and sinister ideologies, please get any of his extraordinary books.

Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)

1 review
Ulf Hannerz

University Of Chicago Press, 2004

disappointing
The topic is fascinating, and the author is an experienced and thoughtful anthropologist. But the book still fails to take off. It does not have any particularly strong argument to make, and the case studies consist of a few summaries of routine published newspaper articles plus casual observations from the field.

Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam

1 review
Philip Caputo

The Lyons Press, 2002

Another solid book from Mr. Caputo. RECOMMENDED
I'm going to post the Publisher Comments and also the Kirkus Reviews here because it will better tell you what this book is about and because there are no other reviews and I'm a lousy reviewer. I've read A Rumor of War (loved), Horn of Africa (loved), Delcorso's Gallery (didn't care for), The Voyage (Loved), Acts of Faith (loved) and of course Means of Escape (Loved) Mr. Caputo's been through ...

Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (Latinos in American Society and Culture, Vol 6)
Ruben Salazar

Univ of California Pr, 1995

This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Since his tragic death while covering the ...

News From the Front: War Correspondents on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Martin Farrar

Sutton Pub Ltd, 1999

Using real newspaper reports from the period, this text examines how the perception by the military of World War I newspaper correspondents changed, from banned outlaws initially, to official mouthpieces by 1918. Martin Farrar relates their troubled story and focuses in particular on the work of five men who became accredited to the British General Headquarters: William Beach Thomas, Philip Gibbs, Percival Phillips, Perry Robinson and Herbert ...

Bad News Bible: A Faith Zanetti mystery (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)

2 reviews
Anna Blundy

Felony & Mayhem, 2008

funny and exciting
Don't read this book if you are trying to understand the Israel Palestine situation, do read it if you are interested in the world of ravaged war correspondents. Faith Zanetti is hilarious and astutely observed as are her friends and enemies in the press pack.

Januarius MacGahan: The Life and Campaigns of an American War Correspondent
Dale L Walker

Backinprint.com, 2006

Januarius MacGahan (1844-1878) had an incandescent career as a foreign correspondent, covering the Franco-Prussian, Carlist, and Russo-Turkish wars, a Russian incursion into Central Asia, and even an arctic expedition. His reports on the "Bulgarian Atrocities" of 1876 earned him the inscription on his grave marker in New Lexington, Ohio: "Liberator of Bulgaria." "Dale Walker has done Januarius MacGahan all the honor that has long been due ...

Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: a New York Herald Correspondent's View of the American Civil War
Thomas W. Knox

Oakpast, 2008

A news correspondent's view of the great Civil War in America When the discontent that grew into Civil War was fomenting, the author of this book, Thomas Knox was covering the Gold Rushes of the Rocky Mountains for his newspaper-the famous New York Herald. His editor made it plain that the news was now in a very different quarter and that brought about his posting to the troubled border of Missouri. Knox brings the inevitable advantage of the ...

Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on ...

6 reviews
Ruth Gruber

Schocken, 2007

Memoir of an Amazing Photojournalist
"Witness" By Ruth Gruber Review by Phyllis Johnson Landing assignments her male colleagues hadn't, flying to the Soviet Arctic and then to Europe, seeing an exodus from a country ravaged during the Holocaust, Ruth Gruber was quite a photojournalist. She writes her memoir in "Witness" and serves as an inspiration to anyone spending his or her life tracking down a story, particularly one that ...

TIME: Hugh Sidey Profiles the Presidents: From FDR to Clinton with TIME Magazine's Veteran White House ...
Hugh Sidey

Bulfinch, 2001

For 43 years, Hugh Sidey has been reporting on the White House for Time, Inc. His lively column, The Presidency, has been featured in Time magazine during the past seven administrations. Nobody understands the complex interplay of personality and power in the Oval Office better than he. Nobody writes about it with as much vitality and depth of experience. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from Time magazine's exceptional archives, ...

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