In Many Wars, by Many War Correspondents

by Lynch, George; Palmer, Frederick; Hamilton, John Maxwell

• ISBN13: 9780807137093
• ISBN10: 080713709X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

Corralled in the Imperial Hotel, the journalists had nothing much to do except tell stories in the bar and write about local flora. A few of them, including Jack London and Richard Harding Davis, decided to contribute short autobiographical stories recounting their most exciting journalistic experiences for a book to be edited by Lynch and his American colleague, Frederick Palmer. The correspondents told their tales in different ways-prose, poems, sketches, and even a short play. Their stories recounted their routines, failures, and triumphs, including surviving battles and waiting to see action. One contributor imagines bewhiskered correspondents in 1950 still awaiting permission from Japan to go to the front-only to learn the war had been over for thirty-nine years.

Author Biography

John Maxwell Hamilton, a former foreign correspondent, is the author of Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting and other books. He is executive vice chancellor and provost of Louisiana State University, LSU Foundation Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor, and the founding dean of LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication.

Table of Contents

"A Naval Engagement,"	p. 1
"President McKinley's Assassination," and "From Our Special at the Front,	p. 5
"Under the Fire of an International Fleet,"	p. 11
"A Night at Death's Door,"	p. 17
"A Battle with the Waves,"	p. 21
"Michaels, of Michaelmas Bay,"	p. 25
"Fifteen Hours Under Fire,"	p. 31
"Fifteen Hours Under Fire,"	p. 31
"My Most Strenuous Campaign,"	p. 35
"In Modoc"	p. 39
"How Stephen Crane took Juana Dias,"	p. 43
"He That Died o'Wednesday,"	p. 47
"One Day's Work in Cuba,"	p. 49
"A Startling Surprise,"	p. 55
"The Penalty of War Corresponding,"	p. 59
"February 8th,"	p. 65
"The Cowboy and the Rattlesnake,"	p. 69
"How South Americans Fight,"	p. 73
"The Hat and the Ha'penny"	p. 79
"A Night Attack on Boshof,"	p. 83
"With Colonel Yankoff: A Balkan Episode,"	p. 87
"A Mango and a Rumor,"	p. 91
"The Break-up,"	p. 95
"A Trip to New York as a Steward,"	p. 97
"A Veldt Vendetta,"	p. 101
"Treasure Trove,"	p. 105
"How I Was Nearly Beheaded," anf ".o"	p. 107
"Saving a Column,"	p. 113
"Waiting,"	p. 117
"R. T. P. s,"	p. 119
"A Camera and a Journey,"	p. 123
"Nippon Banzai,"	p. 131
"An Unpleasant Choice,"	p. 135
"An Attempt That Failed,"	p. 141
"War's Mercies and War's Satires,"	p. 145
"The War and the Walker,"	p. 149
"Adrift on an Ice-Pack,"	p. 155
"An Adventure in Bulgaria,"	p. 159
"Taking It Laying Down,"	p. 163
"Without Orders,"	p. 167
"A Message from Andree,"	p. 171
"The Canadians at Paardeberg,"	p. 177
"A Fiji Incident,"	p. 183
"The Devotions of an Emperor,"	p. 187
"Impression Pénible,"	p. 191
"How I Selected a Campaign Outfit,"	p. 193
"Sognando,"	p. 197
"Saved by a Desert Quail,"	p. 201
"A Boxer Charge,"	p. 207
"Four Stone Ten,"	p. 209
"Painful Impression;": Translation of C. Victor Thomas's "Impression Pénible"	p. 211
"Dreaming!": Translation of Alberto Troise's "Sognando!"	p. 213
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