Book description
Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most
famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and
best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry;
the star travel-writer of the
New Yorker
; and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation. Drawing on
Moorehead's diaries and correspondence, as well as interviews with his
family and friends, Tom Pocock tells the story of a thrilling, but
ultimately tragic, life. Since the end of the Second World War when,
at the age of nineteen, he was the youngest war correspondent, Tom
Pocock has been a Fleet Street journalist. On the staff of The Times
, the Daily Mail
, the Daily Express
and finally the Evening Standard
, he travelled widely and reported a number of wars, recording his
experiences in two volumes of memoirs: 1945: The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder
(1983) and East and West of Suez
(1986). He is the author of eight other books, mostly biographies, one
of which, Horatio Nelson
, was chosen as a runner-up for the Whitbread Award for Biography in
1988.
