Alan Moorehead, one of the great war correspondents and historians of the century, was also a vivid memoirist. Here he describes his early years as an unsuccessful schoolboy, his flight from Australia to the expatriate scenes of London and Paris between the wars, his career as an overseas correspondent, and his friendship with fellow journalist Alexander Clifford as they covered World War II in North Africa and Europe. This is Moorehead's own "history" -- a compelling self-portrait of the making of a writer and his Last ...
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Alan Moorehead, one of the great war correspondents and historians of the century, was also a vivid memoirist. Here he describes his early years as an unsuccessful schoolboy, his flight from Australia to the expatriate scenes of London and Paris between the wars, his career as an overseas correspondent, and his friendship with fellow journalist Alexander Clifford as they covered World War II in North Africa and Europe. This is Moorehead's own "history" -- a compelling self-portrait of the making of a writer and his Last book. Published in 1970, this is the first U.S. paperback edition.
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VG+ in Very Good jacket. Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover with black cloth over boards and red quarter cloth, in gold jacket with red and black titles, 8vo. 1st U.S. edition (stated). 175pp. Frontis. VG+/VG. Book has mild fading to cloth just along upper edges, mild softness to upper spine end; cloth otherwise clean and sharp; binding strong and square, somewhat favors gatherings at mid and end of volume; moderate uniform toning to clean, unmarked pages. jacket has light rubbing over binding edges; toning to inner upper edges of flaps; 1 3/4" x 5/8" former price label lower rear panel away from figure (retained to prevent scraping). Central panels clean and strongly colored. Jacket in Brodart.
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F in F- jacket. F/F-. 8vo. original yellow boards in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & marked); pp. [vi (last blank)], 176 (last blank), with a frontispiece plate. A fine copy.