| Description |
xv, 300 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Kloos, Marko.
Frontlines.
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| Contents |
1. D-Day: a beach in Normandy / Doon Campbell -- 2. Death before noon / Ronald Bedford -- 3. Who, what, when, where and why? / Derek Jameson -- 4. A tyrant and his birthday balloon / Don Dallas -- 5. Ascent of Everest / Peter Jackson and Adrienne Farrell -- 6. Russian secrets and spies / Sidney Weiland -- 7. B and K / John Earle -- 8. Paratroops and necrophilia / Aleco Joannides -- 9. Revolt in Hungary / Ronald Farquhar -- 10. The day I stepped on Mao's toes / David Chipp -- 11. Globetrotting with the President / John Heffernan -- 12. 'They shoot like pigs' / Basil Chapman -- 13. Private Presley / Peter B. Johnson -- 14. At gunpoint in Africa / Sandy Gall -- 15. Oranges in Gorky Street / Robert Elphick -- 16. 'Die Grenze ist geschlossen' / Adam Kellet-Long -- 17. Swans, spies and a greenhorn with red gloves / Annette von Broeker -- 18. The Hammarskjoeld mystery / Gerry Ratzin |
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19. The American bomber / Frederick Forsyth -- 20 Ming Ming, me and Cat-Strangler Chi / Anthony Grey -- 21. Back to Balfour / John Chadwick -- 22. Dateline Hollywood / Bruce Russell -- 23. The death of Che Guevera / Christopher Roper -- 24. The war America lost / Ronald Clarke -- 25. Get it right! / John Suchet -- 26. Mideast: David and Goliath / Patrick Massey -- 27. Just what did he say on the moon? / Peter Mosley -- 28. Thrilla in Manilla / Rick Norsworthy -- 29. 'America cannot do anything' / Paul Taylor -- 30. The Iron Lady / Peter Gregson -- 31. The censor used a silencer / Bernd Debusmann -- 32. Mr Shake Your Money / Nicholas Moore -- 33. Politics - the name of the game / Clare McDermott -- 34. How a Buddhist lama opened my eyes / Bernard Melunsky -- 35. 'Mrs Gandhi is no more with us' / Brian Williams -- 36. Fear at the wheel / Allan Barker -- 37. Red Guards to Tiananmen / Vergil Berger |
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38. Moscow's Afghan Vietnam / Helen Womack -- 39. The fall of the Berlin Wall / Tom Heneghan -- 40. Mandela is free / Jonathan Sharp -- 41. Elegy for Yugoslavia / Hugh Pain -- 42. Analysis of a spy / Stephen Somerville -- 43. The fight factor / David Rogers |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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Reporters and reporting -- History -- 20th century.
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History, Modern -- 1945-1989 -- Sources.
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News agencies -- History -- 20th century.
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Reporters and reporting -- Anecdotes.
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Foreign correspondents.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes.
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| Author |
Moore, Nicholas, 1941-
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Weiland, Sidney, -1999.
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Reuters Limited.
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| LC no. |
2005012070 |
| ISBN |
1903684013 |
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