Eclipse - Softcover

Moorehead, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186207366X ISBN 13: 9781862073661

Publisher: Granta Books, 2000

Synopsis

Alan Moorehead was a newspaper correspondent during the Second World War and is celebrated as a master of reportage. This is his narrative of the last years of the war, throughout which he was constantly at the heart of the conflict: from the Italian front, to exhorting D-Day troops with Montgomery, on the beach for De Gaulle's return to France, preceding the forces into Paris to find Hemingway and his militia having liberated the Ritz, to the surrender of German forces, country by country. Written in 1945, the book not only seeks to cut a crystal line of narrative through the huge mass of detail, but to capture with concision and acuity the states of mind of the occupied peoples as they were liberated. This edition of Eclipse is published with a new introduction by Phillip Knightley.

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About the Author

Alan Moorhead's writing on war showed him to be 'more than a first-class reporter. He is an artist' (Observer). After 1945, he turned to writing books, including Eclipse, Gallipoli (for which he won the Duff Cooper Prize), The White Nile, The Blue Nile and finally A Late Education. He was awarded an OBE in 1946 and died in 1983.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 186207366X
• ISBN 13: 9781862073661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300