Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Out-of-work war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a job writing a profile for a new mindfulness app called Clarity, which induces nightmares that begin to permeate his waking life and leads him to the discovery that no one with Clarity has any interest in his article--only in him.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, narrowly escaping death during an ambush, Susan and Son find themselves...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Fifteen years after being assailed by rebel forces while on assignment in Sarajevo in 1993, a cameraman and an interpreter return to the Balkans to work on a documentary about a powerful war criminal who is still in hiding.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information onto the Lusitania during World War I.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 302 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
A wisecracking foreign correspondent recounts her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan while sharing cautionary observations about the region in its first post-Taliban years and the responsibilities of the U.S. and NATO.
Author
Formats
Description
When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. This is the story of how he survived--a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full--from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery. Going inside the events that have permanently transformed...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
496 pages 25 cm.
Description
"A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa--a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The first biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlistedmen against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased...
13) A private war
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who suffered an eye injury after being struck by a grenade in Sri Lanka.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes landfall in the City of Lights, Mielle falls under Jane’s spell, growing ever more intoxicated by her glamour, self-possession, and reckless confidence....
15) The hot country
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an early 20th-century American war correspondent reporting on Mexico's civil war, witnesses the attempted assassination of a priest and the arrival of strange ships bearing German officials.
16) The lotus eaters
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
389 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
A novel that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Formats
Description
During the Franco-Vietnamese War, Alden Pyle, a young and naive American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy within a unit known as Third Force. There, Alden befriends Fowler, a realistic and cynical journalist, who unlike Alden is very aware of the changing winds blowing in Vietnam.
Author
Formats
Description
"Close-Up on War 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 20-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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
336 pages
Description
"The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With...
20) Juniper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ruth is a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Sam is her unruly grandson, recently kicked out of boarding school and grieving the death of his mother. When the two are brought together under the same roof, they form an unexpected bond.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title