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Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II Paperback – March 27, 2018

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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 lines of history.
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    Yale University Press
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“A racy, star-studded compilation of anecdotes about the war’s writers and broadcasters.”
—Max Hastings, Sunday Times



“A racy, star-studded compilation of anecdotes about the war’s writers and broadcasters.”
—Max Hastings, Sunday Times

“A fascinating multinational saga, written with clarity and global perspective. . . . Do not miss this excellent, wonderfully researched and incisive book by one of America’s most experienced and best foreign correspondents.”—Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London

“Just when you thought there was no room for another book on World War II, Ray Moseley has assembled a masterful and highly readable compendium on war reporting in the heyday of print and radio. His encyclopedic research of every conceivable theater of operations is enlivened by insightful judgment gleaned from his own more recent experience as a veteran war correspondent.”—Jonathan Randal, former Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent

"Reporting War is a fascinating book that should be read by aspiring war reporters and anyone who is interested in journalism. Twenty-first-century journalists have agonised about how fairly and well they can report when they're on an embed. Imagine how much harder it must have been as part of the Allied war machine on D-Day, or in the Western desert, or during the fall of Berlin, as millions fought and died for national survival and the future shape of the world. Perhaps those correspondents can be forgiven for being, at times, less than impartial.
    But modern journalists can learn a lot from the powers of description of these predecessors, generally radio correspondents who recorded on devices that did not allow for retakes. And the book is a reminder to all reporters that however good your story, you need to be able to file it on time if you want it to have any impact.
   Reporting War is also a brilliant collection of war stories, close encounters with death and destruction, tales of enterprise, rivalry, fear and bravery. You can imagine them being told for the first time over a whisky in some broken town."—Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor

About the Author

Ray Moseley enjoyed a long career as a foreign, diplomatic, and chief European correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, stationed in London, Washington, Berlin, Rome, Cairo, Belgrade, Moscow, and Nairobi. He lives in London.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Reprint edition (March 27, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300234155
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300234152
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
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Richard T Watts
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024
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Learned more about WWII than I ever learned in school . Excellent book . Would read again . Very good.
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Janyce K. Mose
4.0 out of 5 stars WWW II from the Press view.
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024
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Very well written.. almost entirely personal stories of individual correspondents. Many recounts of events or issues I never heard of previously. Extremely interesting.
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Eric V. Weil
5.0 out of 5 stars Untoldd History
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018
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Great nistory on an nearly unreported aprt of WWII. Would have liked more on the women but understand. Well wroitten and tells a story not wll known but not as history but eexciting narrative. Detailed, accurate and informative. As one who reenacts as a WWTT war correspondent and photographer this was a great addition my impression and a great read.
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Richard Longworth
5.0 out of 5 stars The Front Lines of History
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017
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Ray Moseley, a veteran war correspondent himself, has written the history of the men and women -- not many women in those days, but they were some of the best -- who covered World War II, which was probably the biggest story in history. It was appallingly hard and dangerous work and Moseley doesn't try to glamorize it. Rather, he tells it straight, often in the correspondents' own words, and the result is that the drama comes through even more clearly. Unlike other histories, Moseley doesn't restrict his cast of characters to Americans but includes British, French, Italian, five Australians who may have been the best of all -- even the Russians. Showboats such as Ernest Hemingway get the scorn they deserve, but the real heroes, many of them obscure, emerge in all their battered courage: correspondents died in greater proportion to their numbers than the soldiers themselves. From Clare Hollingworth watching the Germans invade Poland to George Weller walking through the ruins of Nagasaki, this is the definitive work on this vital slice of World War II history.
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knight, robin
4.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable group of men and women
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017
This is a substantial book in every sense of the word – 422 pages long, based on meticulous research over several years by a veteran American foreign correspondent well qualified to make the sort of informed judgements about reporters under fire which pepper its pages. It appears soon after the death of Phillip Knightley whose 1975 work The First Casualty remains the yardstick by which all books about war reporting should be judged.

Moseley, who enjoyed a long career with UPI and the Chicago Tribune, covered several wars and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In his time, he was based in Moscow, London, Berlin, Belgrade, Rome, Cairo, Nairobi and Washington DC. Here he has produced a warts-and-all account of coverage of World War 11 that underlines the often courageous, competitive and adventurous character of many Allied reporters in the 1939-45 era as well as the numerous compromises and human and journalistic failures involved in staying with a war that lasted a full six years and encompassed the globe.

Now legendary names colour the book – Ed Murrow, Alan Moorehead, Clare Hollingworth, Martha Gellhorn, Vasily Grossman, Ernie Pyle, Richard Dimbleby – and many that are less well known but deserve to be remembered such as Osmar White of the Melbourne Herald & Weekly Times and Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News. “The greatest surprise was discovering that some of the best reporting, and writing, of the war came from five Australians,” Moseley writes in the Preface. “Four of them came from one city: Melbourne.”

In a war like no other, Moseley remarks that “there was no pretence at even-handedness.” Most reporters wrote of ‘our’ forces and ‘our’ victories. “Allied forces didn’t advance; ‘we’ advanced.” All correspondents wore uniforms and a few carried weapons; one even shot down a German plane after gunners aboard the bomber on which he was flying were put out of action. Some reporters doubled as spies.

About 1,800 correspondents were accredited to Allied forces at one time or another. Sixty-nine were killed on the battlefield or died. Some of the most harrowing accounts of battle involved seaborne landings, especially in the Pacific. Moseley notes that a memorial to all the journalistic dead was unveiled in the Pentagon in 1948. Later a tree was planted at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington in 1986 to honour more than 200 war correspondents killed in the last 100 years. Swashbucklers like Ernest Hemingway apart, “a fear of death or serious injury hung over many for years at stretch and most did not resort to any pretence of bravado.”

The narrative focuses on journalists from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and the Soviet Union with a bow in the direction of South Africa, France, Italy, Sweden and Denmark. German and Japanese correspondents are excluded on the grounds that independent reporting was impossible in those countries. The arbitrary nature of wartime censorship is emphasised. Revealing individual stories, positive and negative, abound and the day to day atmosphere around war reporters is skilfully recreated.

The underlying writing technique used to take in so many war theatres and individuals inevitably resembles a list of names and actions at some points. But Moseley also cleverly weaves vivid descriptions of events and people with some penetrating observations and analysis.

In his book, Phillip Knightley concluded that, overall, war correspondents could have done a better job. This, broadly speaking, is Moseley’s verdict on the WW11 record although he is at pains to stress that some great reporting did come out of the conflict.

In his words: “Critical analysis of the reasons for defeats was generally missing, largely because of censors but also to some extent because of restraints correspondents imposed upon themselves.” The most glaring weakness of many media outlets in fact occurred right at the end of the war when numerous news desks at home initially refused to accept eye-witness files about the concentration camp horrors being discovered in Germany and Poland.

Moseley ends the Introduction to this valuable book with a well-placed jab that needs to be kept in mind throughout any reading. “Editors,” he writes, “routinely caution war correspondents not to take unnecessary risks, warning that no story is worth their losing their lives. It is a fairly meaningless mantra, for each correspondent in each battle situation must alone judge how far to get a story and such judgements can be notoriously fallible.” World War 11 correspondents, he concludes “were a remarkable group of men and women” who are now suitably recalled in this definitive work.

By Robin Knight
- A foreign correspondent for 28 years with an American news magazine, he covered conflicts and wars in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, the Mideast and the Balkans
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2017
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One of the best, if not the best, book written about what it took for correspondents to cover "the greatest war" and story of the 20th century. All would be journalist should read and heed what those operating during the "golden age" of journalism did and produced as they reported the most horrific story of the 20th century. This incredible book is a "must read" for all students of history and journalism.
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James Burke
5.0 out of 5 stars Knockout
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017
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Knockout. Great insight and lucid writing.
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Hammarhead
3.0 out of 5 stars WW2 Foreign Correspondents' stories
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017
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Although I only read between 80 & 90 % I found it an interesting survey of the many American Correspondents & how they risked all to get the stories out in the many theaters of war.
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Leith Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars How capable these people were.
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2024
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Nothing but the best of coverage of WW ii. These people were remarkable for what they went through and still gave us great reporting. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know what really happened in combat zones. Thank you for making this book available through Kindle.
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michael jaques
3.0 out of 5 stars A good read, but did not really rise above the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2017
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A good read, but did not really rise above the narrative. Some analysis of context, background, and the agendas of the journalists, their employers and their readership would have lifted this above the "s/he did this, and then saw that, then went home" type of narration
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