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Posted, Mar. 31, 2003
Updated, Apr. 3, 2003


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War Correspondents: A Book Bibliography

By David Shedden (more by author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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Allen, Douglas. Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1971.

Andrews, J. Cutler. The North Reports the Civil War.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.

----. The South Reports the Civil War.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.

Arnett, Peter. Live From the Battlefield.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Bartimus, Tad, ed. War Torn: Stories of War from the
Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
.
New York: Random House, 2002.

Blackett, R.J.M., ed. Thomas Morris Chester,
Black Civil War Correspondent
.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Bliss, Jr. Edward, ed. In Search of Light:
The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961
.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

Brown, Charles H. The Correspondents' War:
Journalists in the Spanish-American War
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967.

Bullard, Frederick L. Famous War Correspondents.
New York: Reprint Edition, Beekman Publishers, 1974,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1914.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Collier, Richard. Fighting Words:
The War Correspondents of World War II
.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Colman, Penny. Where the Action Was:
Women War Correspondents in World War II
.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.

Cumings, Bruce. War and Television.
New York: Verson, 1992.

Daniel, John M. The Richmond Examiner During the War.
New York: Reprint Edition, Arno Press, 1970,
New York: Printed for the author, 1868.

Davis, Richard Harding. Notes of a War Correspondent.
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910.

Douglas, Roy. The World War 1939-1943:
The Cartoonists' Vision
.
New York: Routledge, 1990.

Dunn, William J. Pacific Microphone.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1988.

Elwood-Akers, Virginia. Women War Correspondents
in the Vietnam War, 1961-1975
.
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1988.

Emery, Michael. On the Front Lines: Following America's
Foreign Correspondents Across the Twentieth Century
.
Washington, DC: American University Press, 1995.

Farrar, Martin J. News from the Front:
War Correspondents on the Western Front, 1914-1918
.
Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1998.

Fralin, Frances. The Indelible Image:
Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present
.
New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1985.

Hallin, Daniel C. The Uncensored War:
The Media and Vietnam
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Hammond, William M. Public Affairs:
The Military and the Media, 1962-1968
.
Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1988.

Hedges, Chris. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
New York: Public Affairs, 2002.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches.
New York: Knopf, 1977.

Horten, Gerd. Radio Goes to War:
The Cultural Politics of Propaganda During World War II
.
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

Howe, Peter. Shooting Under Fire:
The World of the War Photographer
.
New York: Artisan, 2002.

Howell, Haney. Road Runners:
Combat Journalists in Cambodia
.
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1989.

Kelly, Michael. Martyrs' Day:
Chronicle of a Small War
. 2nd edition.
New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty. 2nd edition.
London: Prion Books, 2000.

Lamb, David. Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns.
New York: Public Affairs, 2002.

Lande, Nathaniel. Dispatches from the Front:
A History of the American War Correspondent
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Lewis, Jon E., ed. The Mammoth Book of War Correspondents.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.

Library of America. Reporting Vietnam. 2 volumes.
New York: Library of America, 1998.

----. Reporting World War II. 2 volumes.
New York: Library of America, 1995.

Lunn, Hugh. Vietnam: A Reporter's War.
New York: Stein and Day, 1986.

McLaughlin, Greg. The War Correspondent.
Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002.

Mathews, Joseph J. Reporting the Wars.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957.

Moeller, Susan D. Shooting War:
Photography and the American Experience of Combat
.
New York: Basic Books, 1989.

Moore, Molly. A Woman at War:
Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.

Nichols, David, ed. Ernie's War:
The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
.
New York: Random House, 1986.

Prochnau, William. Once Upon A Distant War.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Pyle, Ernie. Here is Your War.
New York: Reprint Edition, Ayer Company, 1984,
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943.

Pyle, Richard and Horst Faas. Lost Over Laos.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.

Roth, Mitchel P. Historical Dictionary of War Journalism.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Sachsman, David B., S. Kittrell Rushing
and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, eds. The Civil War and the Press.
New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Safer, Morley. Flashbacks on Returning to Vietnam.
New York: Random House, 1990.

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary.
New York: A.A. Knopf, 1941.

Short, K.R.M. and Stephan Dolezel, eds.
Hitler's Fall: The Newsreel Witness.
New York: Croom Helm, 1988.

Simon, Bob. Forty Days.
New York: Putnam, 1992.

Smith, Perry M. How CNN Fought the War.
New York: Birch Lane Press Book, 1991.

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. The Women Who Wrote the War.
New York: Arcade, 1999.

Starr, Louis M. Bohemian Brigade:
Civil War Newsmen in Action
.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Stein, M.L. Under Fire: The Story of American
War Correspondents
. Revised Edition.
Parsippany, NJ: Julian Messner, 1995.

Steinman, Ron. Inside Television's First War: A Saigon Journal.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.

Straubing, Harold Elk. The Last Magnificent War:
Rare Journalistic and Eyewitness Accounts of World War I
.
New York: Paragon House, 1989.

Sweeney, Michael S. Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship
and the American Press and Radio in World War II
.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Tobin, James. Ernie Pyle's War:
America's Eyewitness to World War II
.
New York: The Free Press, 1997.

Tuohy, William. Dangerous Company.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987.

Turner, Kathleen J. Lyndon Johnson's Dual War:
Vietnam and the Press
.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Voss, Frederick S. Reporting the War:
The Journalistic Coverage of World War II
.
Washington, DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 1994.

Wade, Betsy, ed. Forward Positions:
The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart
.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.

Wagner, Lilya. Women War Correspondents of World War II.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Walker, Dale L. Januarius MacGahan:
The Life and Campaigns of an American War Correspondent
.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1988.


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