The Essential Foreign Correspondent Reading List
1. 
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by:
Lindsey Hilsum
4.42 avg rating β 4,899 ratings 2. 
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by:
Judith Mackrell
4.26 avg rating β 808 ratings 3. 
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World 4.09 avg rating β 2,779 ratings
4. 
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by:
Elizabeth Becker
4.33 avg rating β 1,338 ratings 
7. 
The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism
by:
Joyce Milton
3.69 avg rating β 36 ratings 
8. 
Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
by:
William Prochnau
4.25 avg rating β 272 ratings 
10. 
Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent
by:
John F. Burnett
3.82 avg rating β 91 ratings 
14. 
15. 
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
by:
Christina Lamb
4.64 avg rating β 4,092 ratings 
17. 
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World
by:
Christina Lamb
4.45 avg rating β 727 ratings 17. 
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action
by:
John Garofolo
4.25 avg rating β 40 ratings 19. 
On the Front Lines: Following America's Foreign Correspondents Across the Twentieth Century
by:
Michael Emery
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 19. 
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11
by:
Lindsay Palmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 21. 
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
by:
Marie Colvin
4.47 avg rating β 483 ratings 21. 
Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
by:
Laura Kasinof
3.88 avg rating β 188 ratings 23. 
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq 4.12 avg rating β 289 ratings
23. 
An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I
by:
Chris Dubbs
3.77 avg rating β 73 ratings 25. 
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
by:
Patrick Garrett
3.95 avg rating β 79 ratings 25. 
Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author
by:
Jodie Peeler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 27. 
Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.23 avg rating β 497 ratings 
29. 
World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation
by:
Alex Lubertozzi
4.09 avg rating β 47 ratings 
31. 
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
by:
Stanley Cloud
4.33 avg rating β 789 ratings 
33. 
In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961
by:
Edward Bliss Jr.
4.43 avg rating β 35 ratings 35. 
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century 4.09 avg rating β 393 ratings
37. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating β 23,239 ratings 37. 
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History, 12)
by:
Bob Edwards
3.93 avg rating β 445 ratings 39. 
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
by:
Robert Draper
4.31 avg rating β 984 ratings 
41. 
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
by:
Brian Stelter
4.07 avg rating β 3,759 ratings 
43. 
Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow
by:
S.J. Taylor
3.85 avg rating β 54 ratings 43. 
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
by:
Deborah Cohen
3.78 avg rating β 1,197 ratings 
50. 
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944β1946
by:
Samuel Hynes
4.51 avg rating β 105 ratings 51. 
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating β 144,589 ratings
51. 
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975
by:
Milton J. Bates
4.31 avg rating β 153 ratings 53. 
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by:
Eliot Higgins
4.12 avg rating β 5,437 ratings 
55. 
State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger
by:
Marc S. Miller
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 
57. 
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
by:
Alfredo Corchado
3.78 avg rating β 1,735 ratings 
59. 
Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II
by:
VOSS FREDERICK S
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 
65. 
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959β1969
by:
Milton J. Bates
4.35 avg rating β 94 ratings 67. 
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent 4.18 avg rating β 143 ratings
67. 
Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
by:
Ray E. Boomhower
3.87 avg rating β 52 ratings 69. 
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East 4.31 avg rating β 539 ratings
69. 
War Torn: The Personal Experiences of Women Reporters in the Vietnam War
by:
Tad Bartimus
4.40 avg rating β 198 ratings 71. 
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral β plus plenty of valet parking! β in America's Gilded Capital
by:
Mark Leibovich
3.48 avg rating β 7,028 ratings 71. 
Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway
by:
Elliot Carlson
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 
73. 
Four Wars, Five Presidents: A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
by:
Terence Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 35 ratings 
77. 
79. 
Endgame: The Betrayal And Fall Of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
by:
David Rohde
4.44 avg rating β 452 ratings 79. 
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.01 avg rating β 412 ratings 81. 
Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer
by:
Alan Huffman
4.22 avg rating β 477 ratings 81. 
First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.16 avg rating β 733 ratings 
83. 
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War
by:
Jessica Donati
4.24 avg rating β 376 ratings 
85. 
The Punishment Of Virtue: Walking The Frontline Of The War On Terror With A Woman Who Made It Her Home
by:
Sarah Chayes
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 
87. 
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating β 71 ratings
89. 
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia 3.97 avg rating β 11,441 ratings
89. 
The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.19 avg rating β 376 ratings 91. 
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating β 1,451 ratings 91. 
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.15 avg rating β 8,500 ratings 93. 
Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
by:
David Greenberg
3.67 avg rating β 229 ratings 93. 
Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees
by:
Olivier Kugler
4.05 avg rating β 77 ratings 95. 
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
by:
Michael Isikoff
3.96 avg rating β 1,596 ratings 
97. 
Telegram From Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
by:
Nicholas Rankin
4.03 avg rating β 71 ratings 97. 
News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by:
Ronald Weber
3.41 avg rating β 17 ratings 99. 
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin
by:
James Rodgers
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings 99. 
The Camera at War: A history of war photography from 1848 to the present day
by:
Jorge Lewinski
4.05 avg rating β 19 ratings