Ebook: Reporting war: how foreign correspondents risked capture, torture, and death to cover World War II
Author: Moseley Ray
- Tags: Journalists, Kriegsberichterstatter, Mass media and war, Press coverage, Radio broadcasting and war, War correspondents, War correspondents--History, War correspondents--History--20th century, Weltkrieg, World War 1939-1945--Journalists, World War 1939-1945--Mass media and the war, World War 1939-1945--Press coverage, World War 1939-1945--Radio broadcasting and the war, History, World War 1939-1945 -- Press coverage, World War 1939-1945 -- Journalists, War correspondents -- History -- 20th century, World W
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven
- Language: English
- epub
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of these journalists in the course of his long career, mines the correspondents' writings to relate, in an exhilarating parallel narrative, the events across every theater—Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan—as well as the lives of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies.
Moseley's broad and intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account both of the war and the abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front...