A biography of the war correspondent Marie Colvin. "When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. In…
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"Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a m…
The essays in this book cover a variety of Brenner's encounters with people around the world. "The Target" tells of Brenner's encounters and interviews with Malala Yousafzai, both before and after the attack. "After the Gold Rush" is a September 1990 article about Donald and Iva…
For over a quarter of a century, award-winning reporter Henry Bradsher chased stories as an Associated Press foreign correspondent. In this lively account, he relates a distinguished career that took him to the Himalayas, the jungles of Bhutan, Kremlin caviar receptions, China's…
"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen observers who aspired to understand their host country and interpret it for their h…
Introduction: Battle of words -- Making "Soviet Restons" -- The heralds of truth -- Overtake America -- In Sputnik's shadow -- Notes from the rotten West -- Reports from the backward East -- Cold War correspondents confront old and new thinking -- Conclusion: Us and them. "Fain…
"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen observers who aspired to understand their host country and interpret it for their h…
"Drawing on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, this book provides the first detailed account of the reporting of the Siege of Sarajevo and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. It also includes…