Reporting War

“A racy, star-studded compilation of anecdotes about the war’s writers and broadcasters.”
—Max Hastings, Sunday Times

“A racy, star-studded compilation of anecdotes about the war’s writers and broadcasters.”
—Max Hastings, Sunday Times

“A fascinating multinational saga, written with clarity and global perspective. . . . Do not miss this excellent, wonderfully researched and incisive book by one of America’s most experienced and best foreign correspondents.”—Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London

“Just when you thought there was no room for another book on World War II, Ray Moseley has assembled a masterful and highly readable compendium on war reporting in the heyday of print and radio. His encyclopedic research of every conceivable theater of operations is enlivened by insightful judgment gleaned from his own more recent experience as a veteran war correspondent.”—Jonathan Randal, former Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent

"Reporting War is a fascinating book that should be read by aspiring war reporters and anyone who is interested in journalism. Twenty-first-century journalists have agonised about how fairly and well they can report when they're on an embed. Imagine how much harder it must have been as part of the Allied war machine on D-Day, or in the Western desert, or during the fall of Berlin, as millions fought and died for national survival and the future shape of the world. Perhaps those correspondents can be forgiven for being, at times, less than impartial.
    But modern journalists can learn a lot from the powers of description of these predecessors, generally radio correspondents who recorded on devices that did not allow for retakes. And the book is a reminder to all reporters that however good your story, you need to be able to file it on time if you want it to have any impact.
   Reporting War is also a brilliant collection of war stories, close encounters with death and destruction, tales of enterprise, rivalry, fear and bravery. You can imagine them being told for the first time over a whisky in some broken town."—Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor