The war correspondents and journalists contributing to this collection give vivid accounts of the nobility and depravity, the suffering and the courage of all major conflicts of the modern era. They include: Henry Villard's account of the First Battle of Bull Run; Rudyard Kipling on the Boer War; George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War; Ernest Hemingway on D-Day 1944; Martha Gelhorn on the Battle of the Bulge; Edwin Tetlow on the overthrow of Batista by Castro's rebels; Michael Kerr at Khe Sahn; Seymour Hersh on the My Lai Massacre; John Pilger on the last days of Saigon; Max Hastings on the surrender of Port Stanley; and Eric Schmitt on scud-hunting in the Gulf.
- ISBN10 1841191825
- ISBN13 9781841191829
- Publish Date 26 April 2001 (first published 17 April 2001)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Robinson Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 512
- Language English