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Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett
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Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett Hardcover - 2005

by Nicholas L. Shimmin


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Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983) was one of Australia's most important - and controversial - journalists and war correspondents. This, the unexpurgated version of his remarkable autobiography, leads the reader into key moments of twentieth-century history, guided by an eyewitness who is a writer of passion and insight. From his early years growing up in Gippsland and cutting cane along the east coast of Australia, Burchett lived through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. He experienced some of the horrors of Nazi Germany at first hand before becoming a war correspondent. He covered the first use of bacteriological warfare (by the Japanese in Central China in 1942) and travelled vast distances across India, Burma and the Pacific. He was the first Westerner to witness and report to the world on the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. After the war he covered the struggles of early Cold War Europe and reported on the wars in Korea and Indo-china, the detente between the US and China and decolonisation in Asia and Africa. organisations in Australia and the US, he was exiled from his own country because a passport would not be issued.

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  • Title Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett
  • Author Nicholas L. Shimmin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Early Edition
  • Publisher UNSW Press, Sydney, Australia
  • Date December 30, 2005
  • ISBN 9780868408422
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