Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents

From acclaimed historian Robert H. Patton, author of"The Pattons"and"Patriot Pirates, "a rediscovery and celebration of America s first chroniclers of foreign war.
The first war correspondent, William H. Russell of"The Times"of London, described himself and his profession as the miserable parent of a luckless tribe. But it wasn t long before others saw it differently."Hell Before Breakfast"is the spectacular tale of larger-than-life Americans who made it their business to bring back news from the front; from Bull Run to the Paris Commune, from Africa to the Ottoman Empire, through decades of lightning-fast technological progress and high adventure. As America matured into a great power and the monarchies of Europe battled for dominance through a series of brief, bloody imperial wars, with the storm clouds of World War I drawing rapidly closer, these men and their newspapers were at center stage the vanguard of a golden age of war correspondence."