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"In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground...
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New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Foreign war correspondent Tanner Thomas is addicted to living on the edge. Needing the adrenaline rush of his job to help him cope with a personal loss, he throws himself back into the game, concentrating all his energy on getting the next big story. But when he meets his new photojournalist, Beaux Croslyn, he can't help but feel like he's losing his focus--and maybe risking more... With secrets she won't address, Beaux is far from your ordinary woman....
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English
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"From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war-from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant...
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Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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"After ten years of reporting from central Africa for The New York Times, Associated Press, and others, Anjan Sundaram finds himself living a quiet life in Shippagan, Canada, with his wife and newborn. But when word arrives of preparations for ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty as a husband and father, and his moral responsibility to report on a conflict unseen by the world. Soon he is traveling...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1975]
Edition
1st ed.
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465 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Explores repressive political and military influences upon and the truthfulness of the coverage of wars of the past one hundred twenty years by reporters around the world -- Amazon.com.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world. Amidst the chaos, Kim discovers her true strength as she risks it all to find the next...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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302 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Hannah Manning, a former war correspondent still affected by a traumatic brain injury, moves into her sister's Ontario home to recover, but a ghostly image and a threat to her ten-year-old niece eat at her last remaining grip on sanity.
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
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369 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information onto the Lusitania during World War I.
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English
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While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back in Saigon a young and high-minded American named Pyle begins to channel economic aid to a "Third Force." Caught between French colonialists and the Vietminh, Fowler, the narrator and seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible...
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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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"Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. Her headline-making exploits earned her a reputation...
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English
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Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches--though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xv, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the second world war. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army...
13) Civil war
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, narrowly escaping death during an ambush, Susan and Son find themselves...
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English
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When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, Nina Markova risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment. Stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only her cunning will keep her alive. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter, and only one target eludes him: the Huntress. To find her, Graham joins...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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A war correspondent stumbles on a little-known fact that an honored American war patriot had in fact worked for the Fascists. His wife urges the writer to expose the facts for history.
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2005
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395 p. [12] leaves of plates ; 20 cm.
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English
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The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow's memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist and as a human being – his passion, warmth, intelligence,...
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Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 354 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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From the jungles of Rwanda to the ruined streets of Somalia to the craggy mountains of Afghanistan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers this intimate portrayal of war from the front lines.
20) Scoop
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English
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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs. Algernon Stitch, Lord Copper feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. So begins Scoop, Waugh's...
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