Reporting Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists (Women of Action)

by Kerrie Logan Hollihan

Hardcover, 2014

Library's review

This book celebrates the lives of female correspondents and photojournalists—from World War I through the present—who blazed new trails in a male-dominated career, reporting from the frontlines. Afterword, Notes, Bibliography.

Lexile

1210L

Publication

Chicago Review Press (2014), 256 pages

Description

"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"--… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Pages

256

Physical description

256 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

1613747101 / 9781613747100

DDC/MDS

070.4333092
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