The mammoth book of war correspondents
By: edited by Jon E. Lewis.
Contributors: Lewis, Jon E., 1961-
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf edition 2001.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.; Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: War.; War correspondents.; Military history, Modern -- 19th century -- Sources.; Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: War correspondents
Description: "Gives more than a hundred eyewitness accounts of the reality of human conflict. If the words of untutored soldiers offer the most heartfelt communication of the experience of war, the war correspondents give the most lucid, vivid and complex picture of its nature and origin"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "100 of the greatest war dispatches ever written, including contributions from: Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, George Orwell, Martha Gelhorn, Rudyard Kipling, Michael Herr, David Halberstam, Seymour M. Hersh, John Pilger and Max Hastings." -- Cover.
Table of contents: title: Age of empire and emancipation, 1854-1900; title: Era of total war, 1912-1946; title: Savage little wars of peace, 1950-2000.