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  Dispatches

  by Michael Herr

  "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre. " . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson.
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  The Fall of Baghdad

  by Jon Lee Anderson

  For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by both journalists and news sources, Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches out of Baghdad for the New Yorker were hailed as the best writing published anywhere on the... (more)
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  Fiasco

  The American Military Adventure in Iraq

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the... (more)
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  War Reporting for Cowards

  by Chris Ayres

  Chris Ayres is a small-town boy, a hypochondriac, and a neat freak with an anxiety disorder. Not exactly the picture of a war correspondent. But when his boss asks him if he would like to go to Iraq, he doesn't have the guts to say no. After signing a 1 million dollar life-insurance policy, studying a tutorial on repairing severed limbs, and spending 20 thousand dollars in camping gear (only to find out that his... (more)
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  A Rumor of War

  by Philip Caputo

  When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man’s experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully to today’s students about the larger themes of human conscience, good and evil, and the desperate... (more)
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  Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

  by Caroline Moorehead

  The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century." (Entertainment Weekly) Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the cold war; her wartime dispatches rank among the best... (more)
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  On the Front Line

  The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

  by Marie Colvin

  The award-winning foreign correspondent Marie Colvin was the outstanding journalist of her generation. Recognised for her fearless pursuit of the truth, her courage and the humanity of her reporting, On the Front Line is a collection of her finest work, proceeds for which will go to the charitable Trust set up in her memory. Marie Colvin, who was killed in shellfire on 22 February whilst covering the current... (more)
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  Men and Monuments (Essay index reprint series)

  by Janet Flanner

  From 1925 to 1978, Janet Flanner was the Paris correspondent for "The New Yorkers", signing her letters "Genet". In "Men and Monuments", Flanner traces the course of four brilliant lives - those of the painters Picasso, Braque and Matisse, and the writer, politician and art critic Andre Malraux. Through anecdote, analysis, reportage, and opinion, Flanner presents a portrait of a time in Paris history - the late... (more)
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  Beyond the Green Zone

  Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

  by Dahr Jamail

  "Dahr Jamail does us a great service, by taking us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under US occupation. If what he has seen could be conveyed to all Americans, this ugly war in Iraq would quickly come to an end. A superb journalist."-Howard Zinn We walk slowly under the scorching sun... (more)
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  Behind the Spanish Barricades

  by John Langdon-Davies

  In 1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations for the News Chronicle . By the time he returned in August, civil war was raging, and many of those he had seen celebrating lay dead. On this second trip he crossed Spain on his motorbike with his teenage son and described what he saw and heard in this book, which he wrote in just five weeks and was published to critical acclaim in... (more)