Ray Moseley - Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T he list of people whom I have to thank for their help in bringing this book to completion is not extensive but my gratitude to them is endless. I owe a special debt of thanks to Robert Baldock, my editor at Yale, who launched my career as an author with Mussolinis Shadow in 1999 and welcomed my latest offering with the kind of enthusiasm he previously showed for my work. His interest and encouragement have always bolstered my spirits. With consummate professional skill, Rachael Lonsdale at Yale played the principal role in putting this book together for publication, and working with her was always a pleasure. Sophie Richmond saved me from a number of errors with her careful editing.

My son John, a more talented writer than his dad, read early chapters and contributed important suggestions for improvement, as well as encouragement to keep going. A number of friends, all of them writers and some with their own experience of reporting from far-flung outposts including war fronts, generously undertook the chore of reading every word with critical eyes, much to my profit. They include James Burke, Robin Knight, Alex Frere, Gerry Loughran and Jimmy Barden. Pat McCarty helped supply research material. Charles Glass learned of the book at a late stage and became one of its most ardent champions. Thanks are also due to Roy Reed, Ernie Dumas and Richard Longworth for promoting my cause. My daughter Ann and son-in-law Clive Jones had other priorities during the birth of this bookthe birth of my grandsons Caspar and Hugo. But they cheered me on, along with other family members and friends.

I would also like to thank Mike Pride, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, and Sean B. Murphy of his staff for making available the Louis P. Lochner ).

My greatest debt of gratitude, as always, is owed to my wife Jennifer, who gave me the initial encouragement to embark on this venture, made her own valuable suggestions for improving it, and is my enduring love and inspiration in all matters large and small.

I have made significant use of excerpts from the following books by or about war correspondents, with permission granted by the following rights holders:

Eclipse by Alan Moorehead, excerpts reprinted by permission of Pollinger Limited (www.pollingerltd.com) on behalf of the Estate of Alan Moorehead;

Brave Men by Ernie Pyle, courtesy of the Scripps Howard Foundation on behalf of the Estate of Ernie Pyle;

Wellers War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondents Saga of World War II on 5 Continents by George Weller, copyright by Anthony Weller. Used by permission of Crown Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved;

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 19411945 by Vasily Grossman, 2005 by Ekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman and Elena Fedorovna Kozhichkina. English translation, introduction and commentary 2005 by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved;

Not So Wild a Dream by Eric Sevareid, reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. 1946, renewed 1974 by Eric Sevareid;

Lee Millers War by Antony Penrose courtesy Antony Penrose Estate, England 2015. The Penrose Collection. All rights reserved;

European Conquest by Osmar White, courtesy of Cambridge University Press;

Combat Correspondents by Joseph R. L. Sterne, courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society;

Forward Positions by Betsy Wade 1992 by Betsy Wade. Reproduced with the permission of the University of Arkansas Press, www.uapress.com;

War Report by BBC (edited by Desmond Hawkins). Published by BBC Books. Reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Limited;

The Year of Stalingrad by Alexander Werth, courtesy of Cyrus Gabrysch and other Werth family members.

London, September 2016

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