
Notes of a War Correspondent
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Notes of a War Correspondent is a collection of dispatches written by Richard Harding Davis, a journalist who covered some of the most important conflicts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War. Davis's accounts provide a vivid and often harrowing glimpse of war from the front lines, and offer insights into the human cost of conflict. He writes about the horrors of battle, the suffering of the wounded, and the courage of the soldiers who fought in these wars. Davis's dispatches are not only valuable historical documents, but also powerful and moving works of literature.Book Details
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Richard Harding Davis
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Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, a...
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