war correspondents

David Axe is a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN, and BBC Radio. He has flown from conflict to conflict, reveling in death, danger, and destruction. Meanwhile, back in his D.C. apartment his furniture gathered dust, his plants died, and his relationships withered. War reporting was physically, emotionally, and financially draining and deeply disillusioning. He became a political man and his work became less about him and more about the true victims of the world's conflicts.

Collection of journalistic dispatches from ten American conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm, providing a chronicle of the evolving nature of warfare and the development of the war correspondent.

Describes the work of a war correspondent, what one does, which skills and personality traits are helpful, and how to prepare for this career.

Mark, a young photographer who was slightly injured in a Third World brushfire war, returns to New York but seems unable to recover from his experience until he meets his girlfriend's grandfather, a man who worked with conscience-stricken officers after the Spanish Civil War.

William Boot, a quiet writer of a nature column for London's "Daily Beast" becomes the inadvertent star of British super-journalism when he is mistakenly sent to cover the war in Ishmaelia.

An eager young American channels economic aid to a "third force", but when a British journalist intervenes his motives are suspect because the American takes his Vietnamese mistress away from him.

Ian Stewart presents an account of his experiences reporting from West Africa's Sierra Leone during the violence that erupted when armed rebels stormed the capital in 1999, telling how he and two colleagues were ambushed and shot, and providing insight into the world of war correspondents.