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Tells Peter Copeland's fast-paced story of becoming a distinguished journalist. Replete with behind-the-scenes stories about learning the trade, Copeland's inspiring account builds into a heartfelt defense of journalism "done the right way" and serves as a call to action for today's reporters.

Offers colourful stories and insights about the lives and personalities of some of history's most celebrated war correspondents. With a foreword by John Maxwell Hamilton, this new edition opens a window into the fascinating world of foreign newsgathering at the turn of the twentieth century.

In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Ed Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP. In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship.

In Journalism of the Highest Realm, Jaci Cole and John Maxwell Hamilton have edited and annotated Edward Price Bell's story, focusing on his lively account of the early days of the Chicago Daily News's foreign service as well as the dramatic stories his correspondents covered.

This reissue of a largely forgotten book by Evelyn Waugh will be the first in our new series edited by John Maxwell Hamilton, From Our Own Correspondent. Waugh's hilarious novel, Scoop, is said to be the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a Bible. Along with generations of general readers, the correspondents swear by and laugh at the antics of reporters in Waugh's fictional Ishmaelia. Few readers, however, are as acquainted with this title. It is Waugh's memoir of his time as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia, what is today Ethiopia, during the mid-1930's when Italy invaded the hapless country. Waugh's account, though often criticized for its endorsement of the Italian invasion, provides a fascinating short history of Mussolini's imperial strides. It also introduces Waugh's famous wit and the characters and follies that figure into his notorious satire.

Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalismwar reportingwhen he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sevastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russells fine eye for detail electrified readers and his remarkably colorful accounts of battles provided those at homefor the first time everwith a realistic picture of the brutality of war. The Crimean War, originally published in 1856 under the title The Complete History of the Russian War, presents a selection of Russells dispatchesas well as those of other embedded reportersproviding a ground-eye view of the conflict as presented in British newspapers.

At the height of World War I one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent, Baker assessed public opinion in Europe about the war and postwar settlement.