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The Faber book of reportage

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The eye-witness accounts in this book have been chosen from hundreds of memoirs, letters and travel books, as well as newspapers.

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.

There are disasters, executions and battles - often seen from unaccustomed angles - such as, a French knight's account of Agincourt, El Alamein from a German armoured car.

But peace has its dramas too, as seen from the accounts of the Pilgrim fathers setting foot in the silent forests of America, and Garrick playing Hamlet.

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Faber & Faber
0571141633 / 9780571141630
Paperback / softback
909
07/10/1996
United Kingdom
English
xxxviii, 706 p.
22 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: 1987.