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Top 10 Books by War Correspondents |
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Vietnam
by Larry Burrows
The sights and sounds, emotions and tragedy, courage and suffering of the Vietnam War are captured in a powerful collection of photoessays, originally published in LIFE magazine, taken by acclaimed photojournalist Larry Burrows, killed in action in 1971.
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by Lindsey Hilsum
Describes the life and tragic death of the accomplished war correspondent, who lost an eye reporting in Sri Lanka during its civil war; interviewed Gaddafi twice; and covered conflicts in Chechnya, Kosovo and Zimbabwe in her fearless and iconoclastic style.
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
by David Halberstam
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the lesser-known elements of heroism and pathos that marked the Korean War, in a narrative successor to The Best and the Brightest that evaluates political decisions and miscalculations on both sides of the conflict.
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
In this new enlarged edition of his classic account of the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, Hersey recounts his return to Japan, forty years later and his interviews with six people who were the focus of the earlier book.
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War
by Sebastian Junger
The #1 best-selling author of The Perfect Storm offers an on-the-ground account of a single platoon during its 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
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Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
Presents the British novelist's firsthand report on the Spanish Civil War based on his experiences fighting against the Fascists.
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches From Chechnya
by Anna Politkovskaia
A chilling account of the war in Chechnya by the murdered Russian journalist takes readers into the heart of this troubled region of the Caucasus, surveying the centuries of animosity between Russian and the Chechnyans that exploded into full-scale war in the early 1990s and was re-ignited by a series of terrorist attacks in 1999.
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Safe Area Gorazde
by Joe Sacco
Comic strips reveal the lives of those living in the Muslim enclave of Gorazde during the Bosian war, describing how they survived Serbian attacks that left them without access to the outside world, electricity, or running water.
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab-American journalist looks at the Iraq war from the perspective of ordinary Iraqi citizens--representing a variety of religious and political beliefs from all levels of society--confronted by the dislocations, hardships, tragedies, and harsh realities of the conflict.
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