Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War Cohen DeborahPaperback
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism "High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident."--Financial Times NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD ONE OF THE BEST... Celý popis
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WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism
"High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident."--Financial Times
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, Booklist
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through
"High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident."--Financial Times
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, Booklist
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through
