Hell before breakfast: America's first war correspondents
From the acclaimed author of The Pattons and Patriot Pirates: a book celebrating America's early war correspondents--legends in their time, but mostly forgotten today--who learned their trade in the Civil War and went on to cover twenty years of bloody imperial conflict in Europe and Central Asia. Their harrowing experiences changed their politics, their youthful illusions of war's glory and thrill, and in some cases cost their lives, while also setting examples of globetrotting gallantry that …
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- Full title :Hell before breakfast : America's first war correspondents / Robert H. Patton.
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From the acclaimed author of The Pattons and Patriot Pirates: a book celebrating America's early war correspondents--legends in their time, but mostly forgotten today--who learned their trade in the Civil War and went on to cover twenty years of bloody imperial conflict in Europe and Central Asia. Their harrowing experiences changed their politics, their youthful illusions of war's glory and thrill, and in some cases cost their lives, while also setting examples of globetrotting gallantry that would influence such iconic daredevils as Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill, and Theodore Roosevelt in the decades that followed.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 345 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1101910496, 9781101910498, 0307377210, 9780307377210
- oclc:ocn911263317
- LC Classification:PN4823
- Dewey Decimal:070.4
Table of Contents
Nobody's child, 1854-1866 -- American methods, 1865-1870 -- Wild work, 1870-1871 -- Paris is burning, 1871 -- Primitive people, 1871-1873 -- Pure and savage freedom, 1872-1877 -- Red hands, 1876-1877 -- Green leaves in a furnace flame, 1877 -- The pause of an instant, 1877-1890 -- Our people, 1884-1912.
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