Hell before breakfast : America's first war correspondents making history and headlines, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire /

From the acclaimed author of The Pattons and Patriot Pirates: a book celebrating America's early war correspondents--legends in their time, but mostly forgotten today--who learned their trade in the Civil War and went on to cover twenty years of bloody imperial conflict in Europe and Central As...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patton, Robert H. (Robert Holbrook), 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nobody's child, 1854-1866
  • American methods, 1865-1870
  • Wild work, 1870-1871
  • Paris is burning, 1871
  • Primitive people, 1871-1873
  • Pure and savage freedom, 1872-1877
  • Red hands, 1876-1877
  • Green leaves in a furnace flame, 1877
  • The pause of an instant, 1877-1890
  • Our people, 1884-1912.