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War Correspondents: Reference Material

  • Anderson, Fay and Richard Trembath Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting Melbourne University Press. 2011 See the chapter, "Cold War Conflicts and the Wars of Decolonisation", which provides an overview of the challenges faced by Australian war correspondents in Korea
  • Baudy, Philippe; Bromberger, Serge; de Premonville, Jean-Marie; and de Turenne, Henri, co-authors Return to Korea: Tales of 4 War Correspondents on the Korean Front Rene Juilliard, publisher 1951 Jean-Marie de Premonville was killed the same year the book was published when he was shot down by machine gun fire while riding with a patrol during the battle of Chipyong-ni on February 12, 1951.
  • Burchett, Wilfred Again Korea New York International 1968 Wilfred Burchett's memoir is said to be the only full-length Korean War war correspondent memoir that covers the events surrounding the armistice negotiations period of the Korean War.
  • Cartoons
    • Babysan: A Private Look at the Japanese Occupation Bill Hume Kasuga Boeki K.K., 1953 Bill Hume was a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes.
    • Out of Line: A Collection of Cartoons from Pacific Stars & Stripes Toppan Printing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. 1952.
    • When We Get Back Home from Japan Bill Hume Charles E. Tuttle Company 1953 Bill Hume was a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes.
  • Casey, Steven "Wilfred Burchett and the UN Command's media relations during the Korean War, 1951-52" Original citation: Journal of History, 74 Also available online through LSE Research at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk An in-depth study of war correspondent Wilfred Burchett.
  • Cutforth, Rene Korean Reporter 1952 William Clowes & Sons Ltd., London Cutforth was a BBC special correspondent from December 1950 until the end of July 1951 The entire book is about his experiences in Korea from the time his plane landed until the time he left.
  • Dille, John Substitute for Victory Doubleday & C., 1954 An analysis of the Korean War by John Dille, war correspondent for Life magazine.
  • Ebener, Charlotte No Facilities for Women Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1955 Charlotte Ebener was a news correspondent who spent November/December 1946 in pre-Korean War South Korea after spending time previously in Manchuria She wrote free-lance articles about Korea 1946 for Newsweek Chapter IV of this book is entitled, "The Thirty-Eighth Parallel" and tells of Ebener's impressions of Korea at the time, including visits with Mr. and Mrs. Syngman Rhee.
  • Higgins, Marguerite War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent 1951 The Country Life Press, New York A 223-page book with photo illustrations by Life photographer Carl Mydans, War in Korea highlights the experiences of correspondent Marguerite Higgins from the time she arrived in Korea in June through December 1950.
  • Hill, Dick Battle Talk! Memoirs of a Marine Radio Correspondent Beaver's Pond Press. 288 pages Softcover with audio CD Fifty years after serving in Korea Hill found a seabag full of lost tapes recorded during the Kean War, including a rare interview with the Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams.
  • Jenks, John "Consorting with the Enemy: American Reporters and 'Red Sources' at the Korean Truce Talks, 1951-1953." Journal of Conflict Studies, Volume 22, No. 1 (2002) Information arrangements between American and Communist-affiliated journalists during the truce talks.
  • Knightley, Phillip The First Casualty. 1975, The Johns Hopkins University Press. See Chapter 14, "Korea, The United Nations' War 1950-1953", pp. 365-390 This chapter describes positive and negative aspects of American and foreign war correspondents who covered the Korean War in-theatre There is discussion about pre-censorship in the early days of the war, as well as the censored reporting that later followed He also discusses the reporting of atrocities and a variety of interesting facts about the life of war correspondents based in Korea during the war years London-based Knightley, an investigative journalist with the Sunday Times for twenty-some years, is critical in general of American war correspondents.|
  • Mauldin, Bill Bill Mauldin in Korea W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York 1952. The Korean War version of "Willie and Joe", Army characters created by Mauldin during World War II. In Bill Mauldin in Korea, Joe is now a war correspondent writing home to Willie, who lives stateside.
  • Pacific Stars & Stripes: The First 40 Years 1945-1985. Chapter contents related to the Korean War include: The Occupation Years 1945-1950; The Korean War 1950-1953; After Korea 1953-1970.
  • Rich, John Korean War in Color: A Correspondent's Retrospective on a Forgotten War Published by Seoul Selection, 2010 Color photographs of a wide variety of subjects in Korea during the war years--everything from natives to military brass.
  • Schumack, Ray News Dispatches from the Korean War AuthorHouse. 2012 The author served as a Stars & Stripes correspondent while serving in the United States Army His work is about the 3rd Division in Korea.
  • Shinn, Bill The Forgotten War Remembered: Korea 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook and Today's Danger in Korea Hwa-bong Sin (publisher), 1996 A war correspondent's perspective of the fighting for Seoul, Pusan Perimeter, Inchon landing, and negotiations at Panmunjom.
  • Stone, I. F The Hidden History of the Korean War Monthly Review Press, Spring 1952 Stone was a columnist for the New York Daily Compass when he began to research the war after noticing that British and French correspondents were writing about the Korean War differently than American correspondents.
  • Thompson, Reginald Cry Korea Published in Britain November 1951 Thompson was an experienced war correspondent who was critical of the conduct of the war and of the senseless destruction of the country.