War Report

Zusatztext

<p>Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war correspondent's view of war traces the story from Russell's pioneering work for<i>The Times</i>in the Crimea to the assorted press, radio and television journalists who accompanied the British task force to the Falklands in 1982.</p><p>In particular, it investigates the lives and careers of six of the greatest war correspondents of all time: G W Steevens, who accompanied Kitchener to the Sudan and who introduced the 'colour story' to war reporting; Edgar Wallace, the future thriller writer who scooped the rest of the world at the end of the Boer War; Charles á Court Repington, the military correspondent who exposed the scandal of the shortage of shells in 1915; Claud Cockburn, a communist who adopted a self-confessed partisan approach during the Spanish Civil War; Chester Wilmot, perhaps the greatest of radio war correspondents who brought the Second World War into the living-rooms of Britain; James Cameron, a pacifist who uncovered stories of atrocities in Korea and who demanded to be published and damned. There also includes a discussion on the problems of using television to cover modern war.</p>

Autorenportrait

Trevor Royle is a respected historian of war and empire. His other books include the ground-breaking<i>Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856</i>, the bestselling<i>The Best Years of our Lives</i>and a series of books covering each of the Scottish military regiments.

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