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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also the poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this latest collection, Sleigh brings to these poems his experiences as a journalist on tours of Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Libya. But these are also dispatches from places of grief, history, and poetic traditions as varied as Scottish ballads and the journeys of Bashō.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former British soldier and photographer who accompanied Marie Colvin during the latter's ill-fated final assignment in Syria presents a journal account of their close friendship throughout her last year and the 2012 rocket attack that ended her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist -- and her rousing defense of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible. But how can you remain neutral when reporting from war zones, or witnessing brutal state repression? For twenty-six years, Tadros grew up in the quiet...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in war-torn France. Already entrenched in the thoroughly male arena of war reporting is feisty American photojournalist Danni Bradford. Together with her best friend and partner, Andy, she is determined to cover the events unfolding...
73) Scoop
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a foreign correspondent, a mild-mannered wildlife writer is sent to a fictional African country on the eve of a war. He flounders through a sea of wild rumors and sleazy journalists desperate for a story.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books are considered classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway, affairs with legendary lovers like H. G. Wells, and her relationships with two presidents, Roosevelt and Kennedy, reflect her campaigns against tyranny and deprivation, as well as her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of The Pattons and Patriot Pirates: a book celebrating America's early war correspondents--legends in their time, but mostly forgotten today--who learned their trade in the Civil War and went on to cover twenty years of bloody imperial conflict in Europe and Central Asia. Their harrowing experiences changed their politics, their youthful illusions of war's glory and thrill, and in some cases cost their lives, while also setting...
78) A secret affair
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On a business trip to Venice, Vanessa, a beautiful American woman who is engaged to be married, meets Bill, a television reporter from Ireland. Though she tries to resist her attraction to him, they soon become embroiled in a passionate love affair. After her return to the States, and inevitable break-up with her fiance, she discovers that Bill has been sent to a war zone and is now presumed dead. Hope prevails when the identity of the scarred body...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
War reporter and former British intelligence officer Leo Cauffield and his collegue Sally Tyler, a United States war correspondent, meet on assignment in Beirut. After Leo disappears, Sally starts to uncover his secret life. Her quest to discover the truth will take her to the Soviet Union and into the clutches of the KGB. Now, with the CIA after her and the British government close behind, her loyalty to Leo and her family will be put to the ultimate...
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