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Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry; the star travel-writer of the New Yorker; and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation. Drawing on Moorehead's diaries and correspondence, as well as interviews with his family and friends, Tom Pocock tells the story of a thrilling, but ultimately tragic, life.
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"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)
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'A perceptive and fascinating account of an exceptionally talented man' - Scotland on Sunday
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0712650318
- ISBN 13 9780712650311
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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