I Found No Peace A Journey Through The Age of Extremes eBook Webb Miller
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In one year as a journalist Webb Miller covered thirty-three murders and three hangings in Chicago, was kidnapped by an American tycoon and covered the Western Front. Later he broke news of the First World War armistice, witnessed a guillotine execution, befriended Mussolini, interviewed Hitler, rode a Zeppelin across the Atlantic, reported from the front line in the Spanish Civil War and Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia and accompanied Gandhi on the Great Salt March.
First published in 1935, “I Found No Peace” is a forgotten classic, written with great poignancy and élan and heavily influenced by Miller’s hero Henry David Thoreau. Part-history, part-memoir this is one of the most evocative and close-to-the-action accounts ever written about the modern world’s defining era.
‘One of the outstanding American correspondents in Europe’ - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
'An ace among American war correspondents abroad.’ - Pittsburg Press
‘Webb Miller ranked as a general in the corps of war correspondents.’ - Time
I Found No Peace A Journey Through The Age of Extremes eBook Webb Miller
Part History, part Biography, a fantastic book a bout the reporter's job in the 1930's. How does it affect the mind to see executions ? What was it like to cross the Atlantic in a Zeppeliner ? What was the resistance the British met in India ? What happened in Palestine before WW 2 ? Read this book, and you will know.The reporter way of writing makes it easy reading. Just can't recommend this book highly enough.Product details
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I Found No Peace A Journey Through The Age of Extremes eBook Webb Miller Reviews
When a Michigan farm boy arrived in Chicago in 1912 hoping to be employed by a newspaper, he could never have anticipated that he was about to have a key role in observing momentous world events, meeting world leaders and dictators, and undertaking extreme adventures. The extraordinary story of his next 24 years as a journalist is told in Webb Miller's memoir.
After four years of reporting on crime and justice in Chicago, including an episode in which he was assaulted and kidnapped by a millionaire, Webb went to the Mexican border to report on the conflict between Pancho Villa and the US Army. In 1917 he was sent to Europe to report on the World War, and after the war he worked in Europe.
In 1930 he had an adventurous journey to India to report on Gandhi's famous salt march. After obtaining 10 visas and 4 inoculations in one day, he set off on a 7-day plane journey with 5 other passengers, landing in Cologne, Nuremberg, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Skopje, Salonika, Crete, Alexandria, Gaza, Rutbah, Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Lingeh, Jask, Gwadar and Karachi. Many incidents were encountered along the way including various close calls with mechanical failures.
Besides providing entertaining accounts of daring adventures, the book gives fascinating insights into what the world was like in the period between the world wars. Over the past 80 years, with advances in technology, the world has become a very different place, but the humans who inhabit it are still pretty much the same.
Part History, part Biography, a fantastic book a bout the reporter's job in the 1930's. How does it affect the mind to see executions ? What was it like to cross the Atlantic in a Zeppeliner ? What was the resistance the British met in India ? What happened in Palestine before WW 2 ? Read this book, and you will know.The reporter way of writing makes it easy reading. Just can't recommend this book highly enough.
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