Reporting under fire : 16 daring women war correspondents and photojournalists
Title:
Reporting under fire : 16 daring women war correspondents and photojournalists
Author:
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014]
©2014.
Physical Description:
vi, 249 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists. A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman--including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast news via radio from Berlin on the eve of the Second World War; Margaret Bourke-White, who rode with General George Patton's Third Army and brought back the first horrific photos of the Buchenwald concentration camp; and Marguerite Higgins, who typed stories while riding in the front seat of an American jeep that was fleeing the North Korean Army--experiences her own journey, both personally and professionally, and each draws her own conclusions. Yet without exception, these war correspondents share a singular ambition: to answer an inner call driving them to witness war firsthand, and to share what they learn via words or images"--
Language:
English
Contents:
World War I, 1914-1918. Henrietta Goodnough, aka Peggy Hull, reporting from El Paso, Paris, and Vladivostok ; Louise Bryant, Bessie Beatty, and Rheta Childe Dorr, reporting from Petrograd ; Helen Johns Kirtland, reporting from France -- 2: Between world wars, 1920--1939. Irene Corbally Kuhn, reporting from Shanghai ; Sigrid Schultz, reporting from Berlin ; Dorothy Thompson, reporting from Berlin -- 3: A second World War, 1939-1945. Martha Gellhorn, reporting from Madrid, Chungking, and Normandy ; Margaret Bourke-White, reporting from Moscow, Tunis, and Buchenwald -- 4: A cold war, 1945-1989. Marguerite Higgins, reporting from Dachau and Seoul -- 5: Ancient peoples, modern wars, 1955-1985. Gloria Emerson, reporting from Paris and Saigon ; Georgie Anne Geyer; reporting from Havana, Guatemala City, Tbilisi, and Baghdad -- 6: A challenge that never ends, 1990-present. Janine di Giovanni, reporting from Sarajevo and Kosovo ; Robin Wright, reporting from Ann Arbor, Angola, Beirut, and Cairo ; Martha Raddatz, reporting from the Pentagon, White House, Baghdad, and Kabul.
Reading Level:
1210 Lexile
Elementary Grade
Subject Term:
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781613747100
Format :
Book
