Reporting under fire : 16 daring women war correspondents and photojournalists /

"The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman--including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast news...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollihan, Kerrie Logan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)
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Table of Contents:
  • World War I, 1914-1918. Henrietta Goodnough, aka Peggy Hull, reporting from El Paso, Paris, and Vladivostok ; Louise Bryant, Bessie Beatty, and Rheta Childe Dorr, reporting from Petrograd ; Helen Johns Kirtland, reporting from France
  • 2: Between world wars, 1920--1939. Irene Corbally Kuhn, reporting from Shanghai ; Sigrid Schultz, reporting from Berlin ; Dorothy Thompson, reporting from Berlin
  • 3: A second World War, 1939-1945. Martha Gellhorn, reporting from Madrid, Chungking, and Normandy ; Margaret Bourke-White, reporting from Moscow, Tunis, and Buchenwald
  • 4: A cold war, 1945-1989. Marguerite Higgins, reporting from Dachau and Seoul
  • 5: Ancient peoples, modern wars, 1955-1985. Gloria Emerson, reporting from Paris and Saigon ; Georgie Anne Geyer; reporting from Havana, Guatemala City, Tbilisi, and Baghdad
  • 6: A challenge that never ends, 1990-present. Janine di Giovanni, reporting from Sarajevo and Kosovo ; Robin Wright, reporting from Ann Arbor, Angola, Beirut, and Cairo ; Martha Raddatz, reporting from the Pentagon, White House, Baghdad, and Kabul.