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An anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, perhaps the greatest journalist and war correspondent Australia has ever produced. He was also one of the most controversial figures of the Cold War, both in Australia and overseas. Burchett published more than 30 books, and this volume brings together extracts from most of these, spanning the entire breadth of his career, from before World War 2, through Hiroshima, Eastern Europe, Korea, Russia, Laos, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Angola, Rhodesia and other areas from which Burchett reported. The book presents these fields of reportage chronologically, and thus serves not only as a significant historical overview of the period, but also as a reader in Cold War journalism.
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Rebel Journalism The Writings of Wilfred Burchett
This book is an anthology of the writings of Wilfred Burchett, perhaps the greatest journalist and war correspondent Australia has ever produced. He was also one of the most controversial figures of the Cold War, both here and overseas. Burchett published more than 30 books, and this volume brings together extracts from most of these, spanning the entire breadth of his career, from World War II, through Hiroshima, Eastern Europe, Korea, Russia, Laos, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Angola, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and other areas from which Burchett reported. The book presents these documents of reportage mostly in chronological order, and thus serves not only as a significant historical overview of the period, but also as a reader in Cold War journalism. George Burchett is an artist and translator. In 2005 he co-edited, with Nick Shimmin, Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett. Nick Shimmin completed a doctorate at the University of Lancaster in 1989 on the Manx writers T.E. Brown and Hall Caine. Since that time he has worked in sales and marketing and as a subtitling editor at the Special Broadcasting Service.
Rebel Journalism The Writings of Wilfred Burchett
E d i t e d by G e o r g e B u r c h e t t a n d Nick Shimmin
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521718264 © The Estate of Wilfred Burchett 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2008
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Contents
List of Photographs Acknowledgements Foreword by John Pilger Foreword by Gavan McCormack Introduction
vii viii ix xv xix
1 The Atomic Plague [1945]
1
2 With Mick Griffith to the Plaine des Lacs [1941]
6
3 Who Is Wingate Anyway? [1944]
17
4 The Trial of Cardinal Mindszenty [1951]
31
5 Liberty in Eastern Europe [1951]
44
6 The Microbe War [1953]
51
7 Koje Unscreened [1953]
69
8 The Ball-Point Pen Murders [1954]
79
9 South of the 17th Parallel [1955]
88
10 Front-Line Village [1959]
105
11 Welcome Home [1961]
115