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9780786708666

The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents

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    0786708662

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-17
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

War is hell. It is also suffering, courage, fear, nobility, depravity, honor, death. War in all its aspects, from the tragic to the horrific to the heroic, is vividly depicted in this riveting volume of dispatches by established authors like Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway, who turned their literary hand to, respectively, the Spanish-American War, Boer War, Spanish Civil War, and D-Day 1944, as well as professional news correspondents like Ernie Pyle, Alan Moorehead, Peter Arnett, and John Hersey, who made something like art out of war reportage. Eyewitness accounts of other writers among the one hundred in this volume include William L. Shirer's on the surrender of the French in World War II, Edward R. Murrow's on the London Blitz, Alexander Werth's on the siege of Leningrad, and Martha Gellhorn's on the Battle of the Bulge. Found here, too, are David Halberstrom's Pulitzer Prize-winning piece on the coup against Diem, Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre, and John Pilger on the last day in Saigon. Not only did these men and women brave the dangers of war; they also combated often obstructive military officers and disingenuous politicians to get their story and to report the truth as they saw it. Beginning with William Howard Russell's reports from Crimea, which mark the birth of war reportage, and ending on the battle lines in Bosnia, here is war -- what it looks like, what it means, and how it has been fought for 150 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction xv
PART I The Age of Empire and Emancipation, 1854--1900
The Battle of Balaclava (Crimean War, 1854)
3(13)
William Howard Russell
Garibaldi Liberates Sicily (Wars of Italian Unification, 1860)
16(5)
Frank Vizetelly
The Ball is Opened. War is Inaugurated (American Civil War, 1861)
21(2)
B.S. Osbon
An Action of Considerable Moment (American Civil War, 1861)
23(3)
Henry Villard
The Contest in Maryland (American Civil War, 1862)
26(16)
George W. Smalley
Special Correspondent Siege by Moonlight (American Civil War, 1863)
42(2)
Gettysburg: A Dispatch Written Beside the Body of my Dead Son (American Civil War, 1863)
44(2)
Sam Wilkeson
Our Prisoners (American Civil War, 1864)
46(4)
H.J. Winser
The Battle and Surrender at Sedan (Franco-Prussian War, 1870)
50(8)
Archibald Forbes
The Siege of Paris (Franco-Prussian War, 1870)
58(4)
Henry Labouchere
The Suppression of the Paris Commune (Franco-Prussian War, 1871)
62(8)
Archibald Forbes
Massacre in Batak (Bulgarian Revolt, 1876)
70(4)
Januarius Aloysius MacGahan
The Storming of Takht-i-Shah Peak (Afghan War, 1879)
74(8)
Philip Hensman
The Fight on Majuba Hill (Transvaal Revolt, 1881)
82(3)
John Alexander Cameron
The Death of Adolfo Rodriguez (Spanish-American War, 1897)
85(7)
Richard Harding Davis
The Attack on the Atbara (War in the Sudan, 1898)
92(4)
George Warrington Steevens
We Buried Gordon After the Manner of His Race (War in the Sudan, 1898)
96(3)
George Warrington Steevens
Marines Signalling Under Fire at Guantanamo (Spanish-American War, 1899)
99(7)
Stephen Crane
Escape (Boer War, 1900)
106(12)
Winston S. Churchill
Mafeking Relieved! (Boer War, 1900)
118(3)
Filson Young
Skirmish at Kari Siding (Boer War, 1901)
121(8)
Rudyard Kipling
PART II The Era of Total War, 1912--1946
The Seamy Side of Victory (Balkan Wars, 1912)
129(6)
Leon Trotsky
Saw German Army Roll On Like Fog (WWI, 1914)
135(4)
Richard Harding Davis
The Great Retreat (WWI, 1914)
139(5)
Arthur Moore
Heroic Incidents in the Advance (WWI, 1916)
144(6)
Philip Gibbs
The Battle of Jutland (WWI, 1916)
150(3)
Rudyard Kipling
The Sinking of the Laconia (WWI, 1917)
153(4)
Floyd Gibbons
The Storming of the Winter Palace (Russian Civil War, 1917)
157(4)
John Reed
Death Comes to Mata Hari (WWI, 1917)
161(3)
Henry G. Wales
German Rout (WWI, 1918)
164(3)
Beach Thomas
I Capture Vladivostok (Russian Civil War, 1919)
167(13)
Frazier Hunt
Bugles Sound Taps for Warrior's Requiem (WWI, 1921)
180(7)
Kirke L. Simpson
The Relief of the Alcazar (Spanish Civil War, 1936)
187(3)
O.D. Gallagher
The Attack on the Fascist Redoubt (Spanish Civil War, 1937)
190(14)
George Orwell
The Bombing of Guernica (Spanish Civil War, 1937)
204(4)
Noel Monks
Room and Bath at the Hotel Florida (Spanish Civil War, 1938)
208(10)
John Dos Passos
Letter from London (WWII, 1939)
218(4)
Mollie Panter-Downes
A Portrait of Hitler (WWII, 1940)
222(20)
John Gunther
Killed in Finnish Snow (WWII, 1940)
242(5)
Virginia Cowles
Too Little, Too Late: War in Norway (WWII, 1940)
247(4)
Leland Stowe
Exodus (WWII, 1940)
251(36)
Alexander Werth
France Surrenders (WWII, 1940)
287(5)
William L. Shirer
Fires Were Started (WWII, 1940)
292(2)
Edward R. Murrow
Editorial The Peaceful Draft of 1940 (WWII, 1940)
294(3)
Paddy of the RAF (WWII, 1941)
297(14)
A.J. Liebling
The Loss of Repulse (WWII, 1941)
311(12)
O.D. Gallagher
Reporter Rides Fortress in Wilhelmshaven Raid (WWII, 1943)
323(4)
Homer Bigart
German Supermen Up Close (WWII, 1943)
327(3)
Ernie Pyle
Over the Lines (WWII, 1943)
330(10)
Margaret Bourke-White
It Was Dark as Hell (WWII, 1943)
340(3)
John Steinbeck
The Death of Captain Waskow (WWII, 1944)
343(3)
Ernie Pyle
Second Man Out (WWII, 1944)
346(3)
Guy Remington
Voyage to Victory (WWII, 1944)
349(7)
Ernest Hemingway
Survival (WWII, 1944)
356(14)
John Hersey
Helen Kirkpatrick Reports Sniper Attacks on French Leaders at Notre Dame Cathedral (WWII, 1944)
370(3)
Helen Kirkpatrick
Lovely Americans (WWII, 1944)
373(7)
Robert Shaplen
The Battle of the Bulge (WWII, 1945)
380(8)
Martha Gellhorn
US Marine Corps Correspondent Iwo Jima: Red-hot Rock (WWII, 1945)
388(3)
The Cess Pit Beneath (WWII, 1945)
391(2)
Richard Dimbleby
Stalingrad Banners on Berlin Hills (WWII, 1945)
393(2)
V. Vishnevsky
We Made Contact! Russian and American Armies Meet (WWII, 1945)
395(2)
Richard C. Hottelet
The Big Day (WWII, 1945)
397(6)
Mollie Panter-Downes
A Mushroom Cloud (WWII, 1945)
403(3)
William L. Laurence
Hope This is the Last One, Baby (WWII, 1945)
406(5)
Homer Bigart
Execution of Nazi War Criminals (WWII, 1946)
411(12)
Kingsbury Smith
PART III The Savage Little Wars of Peace, 1950--2000
The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent (Korea, 1950)
423(13)
Marguerite Higgins
The Inchon Landings (Korea, 1950)
436(8)
James Cameron
Hatred to Stay (Korea, 1950)
444(3)
Relman Morin
Our Town's Business is War (Korea, 1953)
447(3)
Jim Lucas
The Suez Invasion (Suez Crisis, 1956)
450(5)
Donald Edgar
Revolution in Havana (Cuban Civil War, 1958--9)
455(10)
Edwin Tetlow
Death in the Rice Fields (Vietnam, 1961)
465(8)
Malcolm W. Browne
The Face of the Enemy in Vietnam (Vietnam, 1965)
473(12)
David Halberstam
The Last Journey of Che Guevara (Bolivia, 1967)
485(3)
Richard Gott
Hill 875 (Vietnam, 1967)
488(3)
Peter Arnett
Khe Sanh Nights (Vietnam, 1968)
491(5)
Michael Herr
Charleyland Begins Right Here: with the American Forces in Saigon (Vietnam, 1968)
496(6)
David Leitch
Life in the V Ring (Vietnam, 1968)
502(5)
John T. Wheeler
An American in Hanoi (Vietnam, 1968)
507(10)
Mary McCarthy
P.F.C. Gibson Comes Home (Vietnam War, 1968)
517(6)
John Fetterman
The Wind Cried Mary (Vietnam, 1969)
523(6)
John Burrowes
A Day in Search of Peace (Vietnam War, 1969)
529(10)
David Leitch
Nicholas Tomalin
My Lai: Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians (Vietnam, 1969)
539(5)
Seymour M. Hersh
I Watched Them Saw Him Three Days (Cambodia, 1974)
544(2)
Donald Kirk
Flight into Hell (Vietnam, 1975)
546(4)
Paul Vogle
Running Again on the ``Street Without Joy'' (Vietnam, 1975)
550(4)
Philip Caputo
Saigon: The Last Day (Vietnam, 1975)
554(4)
John Pilger
An American Reporter's Brief Brush with Arrest and Death (Cambodia, 1975)
558(2)
Sydney H. Schanberg
Argentine Air Attacks (Falklands/Malvinas War, 1982)
560(2)
Brian Hanrahan
The Liberation of Goose Green (Falklands/Malvinas War, 1982)
562(3)
Robert Fox
Max Hastings Leads the Way: The First Man into Port Stanley (Falklands/Malvinas War, 1982)
565(7)
Max Hastings
Massacre at Chatila Camp (Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982)
572(7)
Robert Fisk
The Bombing of Baghdad (Gulf War, 1991)
579(8)
John Simpson
Scud-hunting (Gulf War, 1991)
587(4)
Eric Schmitt
I Don't Care if They All Die (Gulf War, 1991)
591(3)
Robert Fisk
When Freedom Came (Gulf War, 1991)
594(2)
Edward Barnes
Back with a Vengeance: Refugee Rebels Battle to Conquer Hell (Rwanda, 1994)
596(3)
Mark Fritz
An Afghan Village, Destroyed at the Hands of Men Who Vowed Peace (Taliban Insurrection, 1997)
599(5)
John F. Burns
Crisis in Yugoslavia: Eyewitness to the Flames (Kosovo Crisis, 1999)
604(6)
Matthew McAllester
In This Well There are an Estimated Thirty Rotting Bodies (East Timor, 1999)
610(6)
Janine di Giovanni
I Walked into Grozny and Met the Man who Sacked It (Chechnya, 2000)
616(3)
Giles Whittell
Acknowledgments 619

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