Hell Before Breakfast America's First War Correspondents
epub | 36.26 MB | English | Robert H. Patton | 2014
Description: The first "war correspondent," William H. Russell of The Times of London, described himself and his profession as "the miserable parent of a luckless tribe." Others saw it differently: the war correspondent became the stuff of dreams and an urgent romantic calling. . . .
Now, Robert H. Patton, acclaimed historian, author of The Pattons ("Exceptional"--The Washington Post; "Truly remarkable"--John S. Eisenhower) and Patriot Pirates ("Soul-stirring--as good as reading a Patrick O'Brian novel, except that every word is true"--Michael Korda), rediscovers and celebrates, in Hell Before Breakfast, America's first war correspondents, forgotten today but legends in their time. Here are the men who, between 1850 and 1914, and particularly during America's Civil War and the Spanish-American War, led the most romantic and thrilling of lives on the edgiest frontiers of time and space, where empires fell and dynasties flourished; they were...
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