Hacks, Hitler & the Hotel Imperial
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Are Foreign Correspondents Raising the Alarm?
There's certainly many British foreign correspondents who are reporting bravely. Harold Nicholson, the writer in Diplomat and Bloomsbury figure, he is a good friend of this group of American journalists. And similarly, the British writer Rebecca West is very good friend. She's a lover of John Gunther's in the 1920s. She remains a lifelong friend of his. When she writes her opus, Black Lamb and Grae Falcon, published during the Second World War, it's very much of the same kind of project as these characters.
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