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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tom PocockPublisher: Vintage Imprint: Pimlico Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.438kg ISBN: 9780712650311ISBN 10: 0712650318 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 08 August 1991 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsNo one has captured better the war correspondent's trade * Spectator * Pocock's book is as significant for the issues it broaches about war reporting as for its chronicle of Moorehead's life...it is important reading * Independent * This is a model biography * London Review of Books * Pocock's biography is excellent...it would be hard to thing of a better guide to the life of a Second World War correspondent -- Frank McLynn * Sunday Telegraph * Pocock's biography is excellent...it would be hard to thing of a better guide to the life of a Second World War correspondent -- Frank McLynn Sunday Telegraph This is a model biography London Review of Books Pocock's book is as significant for the issues it broaches about war reporting as for its chronicle of Moorehead's life...it is important reading Independent No one has captured better the war correspondent's trade Spectator Pocock's biography is excellent...it would be hard to thing of a better guide to the life of a Second World War correspondent -- Frank McLynn * Sunday Telegraph * This is a model biography * London Review of Books * Pocock's book is as significant for the issues it broaches about war reporting as for its chronicle of Moorehead's life...it is important reading * Independent * No one has captured better the war correspondent's trade * Spectator * Author InformationSince the end of the Second World War when, at the age of nineteen, he was the youngest war correspondent, Tom Pocock has been a Fleet Street journalist. On the staff of The Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and finally the Evening Standard, he travelled widely and reported a number of wars, recording his experiences in two volumes of memoirs- 1945- The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder (1983) and East and West of Suez (1986). He is the author of eight other books, mostly biographies, one of which, Horatio Nelson, was chosen as a runner-up for the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1988. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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