Eyewitness to History

by Carey, John

• ISBN13: 9780380729685
• ISBN10: 0380729687
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Imagine. . . Witnessing the destruction of Pompeii. . . Accompanying Julius Caesar on his invasion of Britain. . . Flying with the crew of The Great Artiste en route to dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. . . Civilization's most momentous events come vibrantly alive in this magnificent collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries -- remarkable recollections of battles, atrocities, disasters, coronations, assassinations and discoveries that shaped the course of history, all related in vivid detail by observers on the scene.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xxix
Plague in Athens, 430 BC	1	(2)
Thucydides
The Greeks March to the Sea, 401 BC	3	(4)
Xenophon
The Death of Socrates, 399 BC	7	(4)
Plato
Caesar Invades Britain, 55 BC	11	(1)
Julius Caesar
Rome Burns, AD 64	12	(2)
Tacitus
The Siege of Jerusalem, AD 70	14	(2)
Josephus
The Eruption of Vesuvius, 24 August, AD 79	16	(5)
Pliny the Younger
The Deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus, AD 211	21	(2)
Herodian
Dinner with Attila the Hun, C. AD 450	23	(2)
Priscus
A Viking Funeral, AD 922	25	(3)
Ibn Fadlan
The Green Children, C. 1150	28	(2)
William of Newburgh
The Murder of Thomas Becket, 29 December 1170	30	(5)
Edward Grim
Richard 1 Massacres Prisoners after Taking Acre, 2-20 August 1191	35	(2)
Beha-ed-Din
Kublai Khan's Park, C. 1275	37	(1)
Marco Polo
Mishaps in Childhood, 1301-37	38	(2)
The Battle of Crecy, 26 September 1346	40	(7)
Sir John Froissart
The Black Death, 1348	47	(3)
Henry Knighton
Women Ape Men, 1348	50	(1)
Henry Knighton
The Capture of Guines, January 1352	50	(2)
Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook
False Mutes, October 1380	52	(1)
The Peasants' Revolt, May-June 1381	53	(15)
Sir John Froissart
The Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415	68	(9)
Jehan de Wavrin
Norwegian Fisherfolk, 1432	77	(1)
Cristoforo Fioravanti
The New World, January-February 1502	78	(3)
Amerigo Vespucci
A Salamander, 1505	81	(1)
Benvenuto Cellini
Spanish Attrocities in the West Indies, C. 1513-20	82	(3)
Bartolome de Las Casas
The Performing Ass, Cairo, 1516	85	(1)
John Leo
Human Sacrifice among the Aztecs, C. 1520	86	(3)
Jose de Acosta
The Incas' Golden Garden, C. 1530	89	(1)
Garcilaso de la Vega
The Progress of the English Reformation, 1537-8	89	(3)
John London
Roger Townshend
Richard Layton
Geoffrey Chamber
With the Spaniards in Parauay, 1537-40	92	(4)
Hulderike Schnirdel
The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer, 21 March 1556	96	(3)
Anon
Prisoners of the Inquisition, 1568-75	99	(17)
Miles Phillips
The Sack of Antwerp by a Spanish Army, 4 November 1576	116	(5)
George Gascoigne
The Arrest of the Catholic Priest Edmund Campion and his Associates, 17 July 1581	121	(6)
Anon
Some London Criminals, 1581	127	(2)
William Fleetwood
Babylon in 1583	129	(1)
John Eldred
Natural Childbirth in India, 1583	130	(1)
John Huyghen Van Linschoten
Shipwreck off Mozambique, August 1585	131	(4)
John Huyghen Van Linschoten
A London Merchant in Cairo, 1586	135	(1)
John Sanderson
The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 8 February 1586	136	(2)
Robert Wynkfielde
The Seasons in Russia, 1589	138	(2)
Giles Fletcher
The Last Fight of the Revenge, 13 September 1591	140	(2)
John Huyghen Van Linschoten
Trapped in the Arctic Ice, 1596	142	(7)
Gerrit de Veer
A Jesuit is Tortured in the Tower, 14-15 April 1597	149	(7)
John Gerard
A Private Audience with Elizabeth I, 8 December 1597	156	(3)
Andre Hurault
English Merchants in Java, C. 1602	159	(5)
Edmund Scot
The Effects of Elizabethan Policy in Ireland, 1602	164	(1)
Fynes Moryson
Newfoundland Mermaid, 1610	165	(1)
Richard Whitbourne
Whirling Dervishes, 1613	166	(2)
Thomas Coryate
The Magnificence of the Great Mogul, 1616-17	168	(3)
Sir Thomas Roe
The Great Mogul: His Cruelty, 1618	171	(1)
Edward Terry
The Murder of the Duke of Buckingham, 23 August 1620	172	(2)
Sir Dudley Carleton
Landing in New England, November 1620	174	(3)
William Bradford
Oliver Cromwell Writes to his Brother-in-Law after the Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644	177	(1)
Oliver Cromwell
Circumcision: Rome, 16 January 1645	178	(2)
John Evelyn
Suttee, C. 1650	180	(5)
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
George Fox Visits Lichfield, 1651	185	(1)
George Fox
Religious Observances in Dunkirk, 1662	186	(2)
John Greenhalgh
The Fire of London, 2 September 1666	188	(3)
Samuel Pepys
The Great Frost, January 1684	191	(1)
John Evelyn
The English Love of Fighting, 1695	192	(1)
Misson de Valbourg
Conditions of Life aboard the French Galleys, 1703-4	193	(6)
John Bion
The Battle of Schellenberg, 2 July 1704	199	(6)
M. de la Colonie
Robinson Crusoe Found, 2 February 1709	205	(3)
Woodes Rogers
Bull-Baiting: London, 1710	208	(1)
Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach
Turkish Bath: Adrianople, 1 April 1717	209	(2)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Albatross Shot, 1 October 1719	211	(1)
George Shelvocke
Solar Eclipse, 10 May 1724	212	(2)
William Stukeley
Pantomimes and Gladiators, February 1728	214	(2)
Cesar de Saussure
The Princess of Wales is Delivered of a Daughter, 31 July 1737	216	(4)
Lord Hervey
Crossing the Alps, November 1739	220	(1)
Thomas Gray
Scurvy, 1741	221	(2)
Richard Walker
John Wesley Preaches in Hull, 24 April 1752	223	(1)
John Wesley
Kitten Overboard, 11 July 1754	224	(1)
Henry Fielding
The Black Hole of Calcutta, 21 June 1756	225	(6)
J. Z. Holwell
The Burial of George II, 13 November 1760	231	(1)
Horace Walpole
The King of Ethiopia Expresses Displeasure, 23 December 1770	232	(2)
James Bruce
Dr Johnson's Playfulness, 10 May 1773	234	(1)
James Boswell
Christmas Day at New College, Oxford, 1773	235	(1)
James Woodforde
Garrick Plays Hamlet, September 1775	236	(1)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Gordon Riots, 8 June 1780	237	(2)
George Crabbe
Ranelagh, 12 June 1782	239	(3)
Carl Philipp Moritz
Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in Action against the French, 20 October 1782	242	(1)
James Anthony Gardner
The First Manned Flight in England, 15 September 1784	243	(3)
Vincent Lunardi
Louis XVI and the French Royal Family, Prisoners at the Tuileries, 4 January 1790	246	(1)
Arthur Young
Chateaubriand Lands in the New World; Chesapeake Bay, 1791	247	(1)
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Marie-Antoinette at the Opera, July 1792	247	(1)
Grace Elliott
A Trip to Paris, July-August 1792	248	(2)
Richard Twiss
The Execution of Louis XVI	250	(2)
Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont
The Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, October 1793	252	(1)
J. G. Millingen
Nelson Loses an Arm, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, 25 June 1797	253	(1)
William Hoste
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798	254	(2)
John Nichol
Beggars, a Leech Gatherer, and Daffodils: The Wordsworths at Grasmere, 1800-1802	256	(2)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Nelson Turns a Blind Eye, Copenhagen, 2 April 1801	258	(1)
Colonel William Stewart
Childsplay in the Lake District, 27 September 1802	259	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Morning of Trafalgar, 10 a.m., 21 October 1805	260	(2)
Midshipman Badcock
Trafalgar: Nelson Sends the Signal `England Expects that Every Man This Day Will Do His Duty'. Noon, 21 October 1805	262	(1)
Lieutenant George Brown
Trafalgar: Reception of the Signal, 21 October 1805	262	(1)
Lieutenant Ellis
The Death of Lord Nelson, 21 October 1805	263	(3)
Dr Wiliam Beatty
Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time, Summer 1808	266	(1)
B. R. Haydon
After the Battle of Rolica, 17 August 1808	267	(2)
Rifleman Harris
The British Retreat to Corunna, 1-4 January 1809	269	(2)
Robert Blakeney
Taken Prisoner at Corunna, 16 January 1809	271	(1)
Sir Charles Napier
A Mastectomy, 30 September 1811	272	(6)
Fanny Burney
Napoleon Enters Moscow, 14 September 1812	278	(2)
Baron Claude-Francois de Meneval
Death of a Climbing Boy, 29 March 1813	280	(1)
Anon
Wounded at Nivelle, 10 November 1813	281	(3)
Robert Blakeney
Execution by Impalement: Latakia, 1813	284	(1)
Charles Lewis Meryon
The Retreat before Waterloo, 17 June 1815	285	(2)
Lieutenant W. B. Ingilby
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Dawn with the 7th Hussars	287	(1)
Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders, 2-3 p.m.	287	(2)
Lieutenant R. Winchester
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: The Royal Horse Artillery Repulse Enemy Cavalry, late afternoon	289	(2)
Field Captain A. C. Mercer
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: Napoleon's Last Throw-Charge of the Imperial Guard, 7 p.m.	291	(1)
Captain H. W. Powell
Waterloo, 18 June 1815: The Finale	292	(1)
Captain J. Kincaid
Embalming a Patriarch, November 1815	293	(2)
Charles Lewis Meryon
Factory Conditions, C. 1815
Elizabeth Bentley	295	(3)
Prison Visiting, 4 March 1817	298	(1)
Elizabeth Fry
Peterloo, 16 August 1819	299	(2)
Samuel Bamford
Cremation of the Poet Shelley, near Leghorn, 15 August 1822	301	(2)
Edward John Trelawny
Exit George IV, 1830	303	(1)
Mrs Arbuthnot
The Opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, 15 September 1830	304	(2)
Frances Ann Kemble
Cholera in Manchester, 1832	306	(2)
Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, September 1835	308	(1)
Charles Darwin
The Coronation of Queen Victoria, 29 June 1838	309	(1)
Charles Greville
London Prostitutes, 1839	310	(3)
Flora Tristan
Death by Guillotine: Rome, 8 March 1845	313	(3)
Charles Dickens
American Slavery: Sale of Slaves, Virginia, December 1846	316	(2)
Dr Elwood Harvey
American Slavery: Punishment of a Female Slave, New Orleans, C. 1846	318	(2)
Samuel Gridley Howe
The Irish Potato Famine: Victims of the Great Hunger, Castlehaven, 22 February 1847	320	(1)
Elihu Burritt
Flaubert and the Dancing Girls: Esna, Egypt, 6 March 1850	321	(3)
Gustave Flaubert
Inside the Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition, 1851	324	(1)
Charlotte Bronte
The Farringdon Watercress Market, 1851	325	(3)
Henry Mayhew
Louis Napoleon's Troops Subdue Paris, 4 December 1851	328	(3)
Victor Hugo
Victoria and Albert in the Highlands, 11 October 1852	331	(1)
Queen Victoria
The Japanese are Introduced to Western Technology, March 1854	332	(1)
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
The Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854	333	(12)
Wiliam Howard Russell
The Indian Mutiny: Scene of the Massacre of British Women and Children at Cawnpore, 21 July 1857	345	(1)
Anon
The Indian Mutiny: Retribution for the Massacre, July 1857	346	(1)
General Havelock
The Indian Mutiny: Household Arrangements in Besieged Lucknow, 1857	346	(1)
Adelaide Case
Single Combat in the Caucasus, 1858	347	(4)
Alexandre Dumas
Explosion on Board Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship, 12 September 1859	351	(3)
George Augustus Sala
The Times Correspondent Helps Garibaldi Liberate Palermo, 27-31 May 1860	354	(8)
Nandor Eber
Derby Day, 28 May 1861	362	(4)
Hippolyte Taine
The American Civil War: General Grant Besieges the Confederate Forces in Vicksburg, May 1863	366	(2)
Cleveland Herald
Gettysburg: The Confederate Bombardment, 3 July 1863	368	(1)
Samuel Wilkeson
The Great March: General Sherman Lays Waste the South, October 1864-February 1865	369	(1)
George Nichols
The Great March: General Sherman's `Bummers', March 1865	370	(1)
Elias Smith
The Murder of President Lincoln, 14 April 1865	371	(4)
Walt Whitman
Americans Abroad, 1867	375	(4)
Mark Twain
The Suppression of the Paris Commune, 23-24 May 1871	379	(7)
Archibald Forbes
The Paris Commune: The Finale, 29 May 1871	386	(1)
Archibald Forbes
Stanley Finds Livingstone, 10 November 1871	387	(2)
H. M. Stanley
The Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria, 2 August 1876	389	(4)
J. A. MacGahan
An Immigrant Crosses America, 23 August 1879	393	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paul Gauguin Marries: Tahiti, 1892	394	(2)
Paul Gauguin
The Graeco-Turkish War: The Siege of Prevesa, 18 April 1897	396	(1)
Richard Harding Davis
A Seaside Holiday, Norfolk Coast, August 1897	397	(1)
W. H. Hudson
The Attack on the Atbara, 10 April 1898	398	(3)
George W. Steevens
The Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898	401	(6)
Winston Churchill
The Spanish-American War: The Battle of El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898	407	(1)
James Creelman
The Battle of El Caney: The Aftermath, 2 July 1898	408	(1)
Stephen Crane
Jumping a Train, 20 March 1899	409	(3)
W. H. Davies
The Boer War: The Suffering of the Civilian Population, Mafeking, April-May 1900	412	(1)
J. E. Neilly
Queen Victoria's Last Journey, 1 February 1901	413	(1)
Cissy, Countess of Denbigh
The First Radio Signal across the Atlantic, 12 December 1901	414	(1)
Guglielmo Marconi
A Roundabout in Montmartre, 4 November 1903	415	(1)
Arnold Bennett
Bloody Sunday: St Petersburg, 22 January 1905	415	(3)
Father Gapon
The San Francisco Earthquake, 17 April 1906	418	(4)
Jack London
The First Channel Flight, 25 July 1909	422	(1)
Louis Bleriot
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, Disguised as a Lower-Class Woman, Jane Warton, is Forcibly Fed in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, 18 January 1910	423	(2)
Constance Lytton
The Arrest of Dr Crippen, 31 July 1910	425	(3)
Captain H. G. Kendall
The Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911	428	(3)
Philip Gibbs
South Polar Expedition: Captain Scott's Diary, March 1912	431	(3)
Captain Scott
The Titanic: A Fireman's Story, 15 April 1912	434	(1)
Harry Senior
The Titanic: The Wireless Operator's Story, 15 April 1912	435	(1)
Harold Bride
The Titanic: From a Lifeboat, 15 April 1912	436	(1)
Mrs D. H. Bishop
The Lemon Gardens under Cover for Winter: Gargnano, Lago di Garda, February 1913	437	(2)
D. H. Lawrence
Colombo Curry, 11 November 1913	439	(1)
Anna Buchan
GBS at his Mother's Funeral, 22 February 1914	439	(2)
George Bernard Shaw
The Murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914	441	(3)
Borijove Jevtic
The Vulture, July 1914	444	(1)
Osbert Sitwell
The German Army Marches through Brussels, 21 August 1914	445	(3)
Richard Harding Davis
War Frenzy in St Petersburg, August 1914	448	(2)
Sergyei N. Kurnakov
Improving Morale, 12 September 1914	450	(1)
Brigadier General E. L. Spears
A Suffolk Farmhand at Gallipoli, June 1915	451	(2)
Leonard Thompson
Mobile Hospital Unit with the Russian Army, Galicia, 2 June 1915	453	(1)
Hugh Walpole
With Austrian Cavalry on the Eastern Front, August 1915	454	(1)
Oskar Kokoschka
Lance-Corporal Baxter Wins the DCM, Western Front, September 1915	455	(1)
Robert Graves
Gallipoli: The Allied Evacuation, 19 December 1915	456	(3)
Norman King-Wilson
U-Boat 202 Attacks, April 1916 Adolf K. G. E. Von Spiegel
457
The Battle of Jutland: `X' Turret, Battlecruiser Queen Mary, 31 May 1916	459	(4)
Ernest Francis
The Somme: 21st Casualty Clearing Station, 1-3 July 1916	463	(1)
The Reverend John M. S. Walker
The Death of a Brother, 15 July 1918	464	(2)
Vera Brittain
The First Tanks in Action, 15 September 1916	466	(1)
Bert Chaney
The End of Zeppelin L31, 1 October 1916	467	(2)
Michael MacDonagh
Birds on the Western Front, 1916	469	(4)
H. H. Munro (`Saki')
Gassed: Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917	473	(1)
William Pressey
The Battle of Langemarck, 27 August 1917	474	(3)
Edwin Campion Vaughan
The Execution of Mata Hari, 18 October 1917	477	(3)
Henry G. Wales
An American Journalist at the Storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 7 November 1917	480	(3)
John Reed
Breslau Prison, December 1917	483	(1)
Rosa Luxemburg
French Cavalry Charge, near Amiens, 26 March 1918	484	(1)
William Pressey
Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family Shot in Ekaterinburg, 16 July 1918	485	(2)
Pavel Medvedev
Incident on the Advance to Damascus: Lawrence of Arabia Destroys a Turkish Column, 24 September 1918	487	(3)
T. E. Lawrence
Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919	490	(3)
Harold Nicolson
Famine in Russia, October 1921	493	(2)
Philip Gibbs
The Execution of Henri D. (`Bluebeard') Landru, Murderer of Ten Women, 25 February 1922	495	(2)
Webb Miller
German Inflation, 19 September 1922	497	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
British India: Civil Disobedience, 21 May 1930	501	(3)
Webb Miller
Hunger Marchers, 27 October 1932	504	(1)
Wal Hannington
Bodyline Bowling, 13-19 January 1933	505	(2)
W. H. Ferguson
The Reichstag Fire, 27 February 1933	507	(2)
D. Sefton Delmer
The Burning Ghats, Benares, India, December 1933	509	(1)
Patrick Balfour
The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam, 13 May 1934	510	(2)
Nadezhda Mandelstam
The Rattenbury Case, May-June 1935	512	(1)
James Agate
The Italian Campaign in Abyssinia: Retreat of the Emperor's Army to Korem, 4-5 April 1936	513	(3)
Colonel Konovaloff
Abyssinia: An American Journalist with the Fascist Armoured Column Approaching Addis Ababa, 18 April 1936	516	(2)
Herbert Matthews
The Spanish Civil War: Carlist Forces Drive Back the Basque Frente Popular near Irun, 26 August 1936	518	(1)
G. L. Steer
The Spanish Civil War: Guernica Destroyed by German Planes, 26 April 1937	519	(2)
Noel Monks
The Spanish Civil War: Wounded by a Fascist Sniper, near Huesca, 20 May 1937	521	(2)
George Orwell
The Louis-Schmeling Fight, 22 June 1938	523	(2)
Bob Considine
The Spanish Civil War: Nationalist Planes Bomb Barcelona, September 1938	525	(1)
Marcel Junod
The Second World War: The Evacuation of Children from London, 1 September 1939	526	(2)
Hilde Marchant
Blitzkrieg: German Breakthrough on the Meuse, 15 May 1940	528	(1)
Erwin Rommel
Dunkirk: The Beaches, 1 June 1940	529	(4)
John Charles Austin
Dogfight over the Channel, 3 September 1940	533	(4)
Richard Hillary
London Docks Bombed, 7 September 1940	537	(1)
Desmond Flower
The Blitz: Chelsea, 14 September 1940	538	(3)
Frances Faviell
Spoil in North Africa: Italian Defeat at Nibeiwa, 12 December 1940	541	(1)
Alan Moorehead
Bomb Disposal: Llandaff, January 1941	542	(2)
John Miller
German Airborne Invasion of Crete, 20 May 1941	544	(2)
Baron Van der Heydte
Syria: British Forces Meet Resistance from Vichy French, June 1941	546	(1)
Alan Moorehead
Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941	547	(2)
John Garcia
The Japanese Bomb Manila, 8 December 1941	549	(1)
Carlos P. Romulo
Japanese Air and Submarine Attack Sinks HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Singapore, 10 December 1941	550	(4)
Cecil Brown
Auschwitz: The Gas Chambers, 25 December 1941	554	(1)
Sophia Litwinska
Dachau: The Medical Experiments, 1941-5	555	(4)
Dr Franz Blaha
The Fall of Kuala Lumpur: The City Awaits the Japanese, 11 January 1942	559	(2)
Ian Morrison
The Sinking of the Tanjong Penang, 19 February 1942	561	(1)
Anon
Leningrad: during the Blockade, April-July 1942	562	(2)
A. Fadeyev
Five Fatal Minutes: Japanese Carriers Crippled, Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942	564	(2)
Mitsuo Fuchida
Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942	566	(3)
Ross Munro
Nazi Extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine, October 1942	569	(2)
Hermann Graebe
El Alamein: The End of the Africa Corps, 4 November 1942	571	(2)
General Bayerlein
An English Poet in the Western Desert, December 1942	573	(2)
Keith Douglas
Stalingrad: December 1942	575	(3)
Benno Zeiser
Stalingrad: A War Correspondent Goes in after the German Capitulation, 4 February 1943
576
Alexander Werth
576
German Rout in the Korsun Salient, Central Ukraine, 17 February 1943	578	(2)
Major Kampov
The Execution of an Allied Intelligence Officer by the Japanese, New Guinea, 29 March 1943	580	(2)
Anon
Luftwaffe Pilot: Tunisia, 7 April 1943	582	(2)
Alan Moorehead
Hamburg, 27 July 1943	584	(3)
Else Wendel
US Marines Land on Tarawa, 20 November 1943	587	(1)
Robert Sherrod
A Birthday: Japanese Prison Camp, Kuching, Borneo, 5 April 1944	588	(1)
Agnes Newton Keith
Cassino: The Final Attack; 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Advance, 16 May 1944	589	(2)
Fred Majadalany
D-Day Minus One: US Paratroops Leave for France, 5 June 1944	591	(1)
General Matthew B. Ridgway
D-Day, 6 June 1944	592	(2)
Anon
The Germans Meet a New Foe, 7 June 1944	594	(1)
Anon
D-Day Plus One: A British Paratroop Seeks Directions, 7 June 1944	595	(1)
James G. Bramwell
Buzz Bombs: An Eight-Year-Old's Recollections, June 1944	596	(2)
Lionel King
The Russian Summer Offensive, July 1944	598	(1)
Alexander Werth
The Bombing of Caen, 7 July 1944	599	(1)
Desmond Flower
The Nazi Extermination Camp, Maidanek, 23 July 1944	600	(3)
Alexander Werth
American Break-Out in Normandy, 24-25 July 1944	603	(1)
General Bayerlein
Birkenau Camp, August 1944	604	(3)
Dr Charles Sigismund Bendel
The Fall of Aachen, 17 October 1944	607	(1)
George Mucha
The Bombing of Dresden, 14 February 1945	608	(4)
Margaret Freyer
US Troops Advance into Germany, March 1945	612	(1)
Lester Atwell
Italian Partisans Assist the Allied Advance, near Trieste, 13 April 1945	613	(1)
Geoffrey Cox
The End of the War for a British POW: Stalag IIID, Berlin, 14-29 April 1945	614	(5)
Norman Norris
Luneburg, 20 April 1945	619	(1)
Desmond Flower
Belsen, 24 April 1945	620	(5)
Patrick Gordon-Walker
The Fall of Berlin, 1 May 1945	625	(5)
Claus Fuhrmann
Kamikaze Attack, 9 May 1945	630	(1)
Michael Moynihan
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945	631	(7)
William T. Laurence
Visiting Hiroshima, 9 September 1945	638	(3)
Marcel Junod
The Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 16 October 1946	641	(8)
Kingsbury Smith
Revenge Killing, Arabia, November 1946	649	(1)
Wilfred Thesiger
Grand National, 29 March 1947	650	(2)
John Hislop
Stalingrad, 1949	652	(1)
John Steinbeck
Trafalgar Square Incident, 23 September 1950	653	(1)
Kingsley Martin
The Korean War: Civilian Casualty near Namchanjan, 17 October 1950	654	(1)
Reginald Thompson
The Korean War: The American Retreat from the Chongchon River, 27-28 November 1950	655	(2)
Reginald Thompson
The Korean War: Padre Blaisdell and the Refugee Children, Seoul, December 1950	657	(2)
Rene Cutforth
Rabbiting, 3 November 1952	659	(1)
J. R. Ackerley
The Conquest of Everest, 29 May 1953	660	(3)
James (Jan) Morris
The Intelligent Bull, Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, Spring 1957	663	(3)
Norman Lewis
Stoning to Death, Jeddah, February 1958	666	(2)
R. M. Macoll
The Vietnam War: South Vietnamese Casualty, 1965	668	(2)
Gavin Young
The Vietnam War: A Reporter with the Vietcong, near Hanoi, 10 December 1965	670	(2)
James Cameron
The Vietnam War: Winning Hearts and Minds, Tuylon, South Vietnam, 23 August 1967	672	(2)
John Pilger
The Vietnam War: C Company, US 11th Infantry Brigade Pacify My Lai, 16 March 1968	674	(2)
The First Men on the Moon, 21 July 1969
Neil Armstrong	676	(1)
Edwin E. Aldrin
Veterans' March, Washington DC, 25 April 1971	677	(2)
John Pilger
`It was the Christians': The Massacre at Chatila, 16-17 September 1982	679	(3)
Robert Fisk
The Fall of President Marcos, Manila, Philippines, 24-25 February 1986	682	(5)
James Fenton
Sources	687	(10)
Acknolwedgements	697	(4)
Index of Names	701