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Deborah Cohen is Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books including The War Come Home, Household Gods and Family Secrets, for which she won the Forkosch Prize and the Stansky Prize.
'A fresh, fast-paced history of the twentieth-century's most defining events through the eyes of the foreign correspondents who dashed off to cover them ... A riveting narrative that unites public and private affairs with rare fluency and power' Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch 'Beautifully written ... A fascinating reminder of the days when first rate correspondents had not just access, time and money but real influence over world affairs' Caroline Moorehead, author of Martha Gellhorn: A Life 'Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history ... revelatory ... The work of a truly original historian. Unforgettable' Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown 'The celebrated journalists of the lost generation were voracious, reckless, promiscuous, funny, and drunk, and they were also shrewd and deeply political ... As intimate and gripping as a novel - I read it all at once, I couldn't stop' Larissa MacFarquhar, authors of Strangers Drowning 'A shrewd and vivid work of history, one that combines deep research with lustrous narrative verve' Fredrik Logevall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embers of War and JFK 'High-speed, four-lane storytelling ... Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident' Financial Times 'A rivetingly raw account' Spectator 'As effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters' New Yorker 'Ambitious ... a distressing, immersive recounting of how denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian regimes' New York Times 'Today the war news is available around the clock on TV screens, in print, and on the internet. Back then the best source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper correspondents ... prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book is a model of its kind' Wall Street Journal
