Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "ww2"

In 1943 Ève Curie's Journey Among Warriors nearly won a Pulitzer. It is one of the best pieces of reportage to come out of the Second World War, and includes vivid descriptions of the Russian Front, the Burma retreat, the fighting in the Western Desert, and wartime China. She met Nehru, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, Chou En-Lai, Wavell, Auchinleck and countless others. But the book has vanished; forgotten, and never reprinted. Why? The astonishing journey of Ève Curie - concert pianist, journalist, humanitarian and diplomat.

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Happy 105th birthday to Clare Hollingworth, the extraordinary foreign correspondent who broke the news of the invasion of Poland, covered the war in the Balkans and Middle East, was the first and probably the last journalist to interview the Shah, and in later years kept a keen eye on the rise of China. I strongly recommend her autobiography, Front Line. Meanwhile:
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I've started posting the odd bit of flash fiction on my website. I find the discipline of short pieces is good for my writing. Here's an example.
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