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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes...
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Beach House No. 9 novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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When Jane Pearson arrives at the beach house of reclusive journalist Griffin Lowell to help him write his memoir, she engages in a battle of wits with this obstinate man who needs her help more than he ever could have realized.
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". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
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New Europe Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In his award-winning new collection, one of Hungary's top writers takes us to the edge--where fiction meets journalism Set mostly in contemporary Cairo and Iraq, as well as Israel, London, and Hungary, these twelve short stories are a staggering follow-up to those in the acclaimed collection The Devil Is a Black Dog by leading Hungarian writer/photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi. Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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A war correspondent for Yahoo! News puts a human face on global conflict as he remembers his travels around the globe, visiting every armed conflict along the way, beginning with the genocidal civil war in Somalia and culminating in the war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.
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New American Library
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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"As a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN, and BBC Radio, [David] Axe flew from conflict to conflict... Loosely based on the Web comic of the same name, with extensive new material, War is Boring takes us to" some dangerous war zones, including Lebanon, Somalia, and Chad.--Page 4 of cover.
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Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2018]
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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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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also the poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this latest collection, Sleigh brings to these poems his experiences as a journalist on tours of Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Libya. But these are also dispatches from places of grief, history, and poetic traditions as varied as Scottish ballads and the journeys of Bashō.
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Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
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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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Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist -- and her rousing defense of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible. But how can you remain neutral when reporting from war zones, or witnessing brutal state repression? For twenty-six years, Tadros grew up in the quiet...
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Black dawn volume 2
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AK Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he's embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all the while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists...
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"Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded into liberated Paris after four dark years of Nazi occupation. He traces the remarkable adventures of the men and women who lived, worked, and played in the legendary Hôtel Scribe. Press jeeps and trailers packed the street outside, while inside the hotel was completely booked with hundreds of correspondents....
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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One of the first women correspondents on assignment in 1967 Saigon, Susan Gifford teams up with a Vietnamese photographer eager to break into American media and is captured by Vietcong soldiers in the treacherous jungle.
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