The Faber Book of Reportage

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The Spaniards with their Horses, their Speares and Lances, began to commit murders, and strange cruelties; they entred into Townes, Borowes, and Villages, sparing neither children nor old men, neither women with childe, neither them that lay in, but that they ripped their bellies, and cut them in peeces, as if they had beene opening of Lambes shut up in their fold. Personal note: I have been slowly reading and savoring this book since the mid-to-late 1990s, more than half my life. Wasn't originally interested in reading all of the 300+ accounts, some of events that held little of my interest, but as they were all very short, it was easy enough to wade through, and a worthwhile wade it was. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. if you love history, you already know you should read original sources and not just rely on someone’s interpretation of events.

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The time span reaches from ancient Greece - Thucydides' account of Athens stricken by plague - to February 1986 when James Fenton in the Phillipines, joins the crowd rampaging through President Marcos's palace. The topics cover such events as the death of Socrates, the eruption of Vesuvius, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Sherman’s march to the sea, the San Francisco earthquake, Pearl Harbor, the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and the horror of Nagasaki. There is a description of the various regional methods that Hindu women employed for suttee, written in 1650 by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier: “This miserable condition causes her to detest life, and prefer to ascend a funeral pile to be consumed with her deceased husband, rather than be regarded by all the world for the remainder of her days with opprobrium and infamy.Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. Best history book I think I've ever read--with eyewitness accounts from the people on both sides of the equation who lived through events that include the executions of Czar Nicholas and his entire family, the execution of Mata Hari, World Wars 1 and 2 and so much more--you get a 360 degree view of history.

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Often we just get the victor's account of an event in our history books, so it was so refreshing to be able to read an everyday person's instead.We pushed them into the sides of the trench but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. I wasn't interested in much regarding the Korean or Vietnam Wars, but was interested in a Veterans' protest march on Washington D. It’s not a bad book to have around if you have 10 minutes to spare - you can usually read a couple of the entries in that time. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts?

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Looking at the other editions, this book seems to have also been published under the title Eyewitness to History. This was always a dangerous time, because we had the dawn at our backs, and if you stuck your head above the parapet it was clearly outlined against the sky. Dominated by war, especially the 20th century, but also interspersed with insights into civilian life.Many of them are about military battles, some about religious subject matter, some cultural events or famous political happenings, and some are just unique happenings somewhere in the world. I am by no means a history buff, so it would have been great if each new account, or even each new period of time could have had a short summary of the major players, other "background" events happening, etc. The next moment my knees crumpled up and I was falling, my head hitting the ground with a violent bang which, to my relief, did not hurt. George Bernard Shaw, writing about his mother's funeral in 1914, begins with, “Why does a funeral always sharpen one's sense of humour and rouse one's spirits? Keeping in mind that the most memorable events are those that assault the senses, it’s hard for me to imagine a book filled with joyful moments as being a real look at history.

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We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. Slowly, inertly, she settled to her knees, her head up always, and without the slightest change of expression on her face.According to him this makes for authenticity by relying on information from people who can say, “I was there,” such as the bystanders, travellers, warriors, murderers, victims, and professional reporters he has included in his collection. Includes: List of sources; ISBN: 0571137164 I had a numb, dazed feeling, a consciousness of being very badly hurt, but no pain in the ordinary sense. That said, there is precious little from African, Latin American, or Asian history (unless there is a colonial, pseudo-colonial or ex-colonial war going on. I gave my silk handkerchief to the little African girl: it was a slave who welcomed me to the soil of liberty.