Dispatches from the Front : A History of the American War Correspondent

This volume includes unique & special dispatches from 10 American wars, from the American Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, & newspaper clippings, the work of Thomas Paine, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, Edward R. Morrow, Sydney Schanberg, & more than 60 other correspondents tell us of America's wars as they happened, on the battlefield & on the home front. Brief essays by journalist & scholar Nathaniel Lande introduce each war by discussing the important changes taking place in American society & providing a series of national snapshotsÓ of the economic, political, & technological character of the world & the country at the time.Lande, Nathaniel is the author of 'Dispatches from the Front : A History of the American War Correspondent', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756790141 and ISBN 075679014X.