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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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.