Reporting War - How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture Death to Cover

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.

Moseley's broad and intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account both of the war and the abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Moseley, Moseley Ray
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780300234152
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23415-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Second World War, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), News media and journalism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General