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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most admired war correspondents of today. She is fearless and rebellious, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe. After being hit by a grenade, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Her mission to show the true cost of war leads her, along with war photographer Paul Conroy, to embark on...
2) Sarah's key
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Decades after a French Jewish girl locks her brother in a cupboard to prevent his being taken in the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942, an American journalist travels to Paris with her husband and discovers that the girl once lived in their apartment.
3) Under fire
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The final days of Somoza's Nicaragua as witnessed and experienced by three American journalists.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines, they...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg is a young Englishman who leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love...
7) Burn Country
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An exiled Afghan journalist moves to Northern California. When he tries to rise above his menial job on a police blotter by covering a local crime, he's drawn into a world of violence.
10) Guernica
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Spain 1937: An American journalist and a press-office censor form a secret alliance days before a bombing that sets the stage for WWII.
11) 5 days of war
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After an American journalist and his cameraman become trapped during the five day war between Russia and Georgia, they enlist the help of a Georgian woman to act as their translator and guide them to safety.
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Depicts Ernie Pyle's experiences with the men of Company C of the 18th Infantry and their role in the invasion of Italy. The story begins as Pyle joins Captain Bill Walker and the men of Company C in the desert of North Africa and follows these gallant soldiers as they fight their way from the beaches of Sicily to the hills of southern Italy."--Container.
13) Scoop
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY : A hilarious spoof on the world of journalism. In a case of mistaken identity, mild-mannered wildlife writer William Boot is sent as foreign correspondent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia on the eve of a war. Boot flounders through a sea of wild rumours and a hord e of sleazy reporters desperate for a story--any story ; and then he stumbles on something journalists work for all their lives.
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Depicts Ernie Pyle's experiences with the men of Company C of the 18th Infantry and their role in the invasion of Italy. The story begins as Pyle joins Captain Bill Walker and the men of Company C in the desert of North Africa and follows these gallant soldiers as they fight their way from the beaches of Sicily to the hills of southern Italy."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing-- getting out alive is something else entirely. Inspired by true...
16) Lions for lambs
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three stories converge when a professor and an apathetic student discuss the nature of activism, a Republican senator tries to sell a journalist on the government's new miltary strategy, and two of the professor's former students fighting in Iraq find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Foreign Intrigue: Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was black-mailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during WW2.
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