"The top 10 books of war reportage" Topic
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Terrement  | 25 Feb 2016 3:10 p.m. PST |
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| Kropotkin303 | 25 Feb 2016 3:30 p.m. PST |
Dispatches by Michael Herr was my first real read about Vietnam. It just lifted the lid on my understanding. Insight on the Middle -East War War by the Sunday Times Insight Team did likewise. Both very educational for a boy wanting to know more about the conflicts I saw on the news but was too young to understand them.I read these books a few years later when I was a teenager. |
| rmaker | 25 Feb 2016 3:52 p.m. PST |
About what I'd expect from the Guardian. Reed's book, for example, isn't "war reportage" it's flat out Bolshevik propaganda. And several of the others cited aren't far off. |
| lloydthegamer | 25 Feb 2016 3:59 p.m. PST |
Herodotus but not Thucydides? Does not make sense since Thucydides "wrote the book" for history writers. Ernie Pyle's collected news dispatches from WWII should be included too. |
| Grelber | 25 Feb 2016 9:30 p.m. PST |
I would have thought Orwell's Homage to Catalonia was more a memoir than reporting. I much prefer Herodotus to Thucydides; I wouldn't say either was reporting, but I would think Thucydides is much closer to reporting than Herodotus. The War Dispatches of Stephen Crane is good. I felt his interviews of ordinary Greek soldiers were fascinating. All the other reporters were off interviewing the army or at least division commanders. Grelber |
49mountain  | 01 Mar 2016 2:57 p.m. PST |
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| Old Peculiar | 10 Mar 2016 12:40 p.m. PST |
"Bolshevik propoganda" ???? Really??? What time machine have you fallen out of? |
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