A Traveller's War: A Journey To The Wars In Africa, India And Russia
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the darkest years of the Second World War, journalist and war correspondent Alaric Jacob embarked on an extraordinary odyssey across three of the conflict's most distant and dramatic theatres — Africa, India, and Russia — bearing witness to a world consumed by fire. A Traveller's War chronicles Jacob's firsthand dispatches from the front lines, presenting a vivid tapestry of wartime life as seen through the sharp, restless eyes of a seasoned reporter navigating deserts, subcontinent cities, and the frozen vastness of the Soviet Union. Published in 1944, the account captures the raw energy of a global conflict still very much in progress, offering readers an immediacy and urgency that post-war histories rarely achieve. Jacob's prose is precise yet evocative, balancing the correspondent's duty for factual accuracy with a traveller's instinct for atmosphere and human detail — the weary soldier, the bustling bazaar, the ruins of a bombed Soviet city. The book stands as a significant document of wartime reportage, sitting comfortably alongside the dispatches of contemporaries such as Alan Moorehead and Alexander Clifford. For those drawn to the lived experience of the Second World War beyond the command maps and casualty figures, Jacob's journey raises a haunting question: what does a man truly discover about war — and himself — when he crosses three continents to find it?
Author: Alaric Jacob
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Collins
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the darkest years of the Second World War, journalist and war correspondent Alaric Jacob embarked on an extraordinary odyssey across three of the conflict's most distant and dramatic theatres — Africa, India, and Russia — bearing witness to a world consumed by fire. A Traveller's War chronicles Jacob's firsthand dispatches from the front lines, presenting a vivid tapestry of wartime life as seen through the sharp, restless eyes of a seasoned reporter navigating deserts, subcontinent cities, and the frozen vastness of the Soviet Union. Published in 1944, the account captures the raw energy of a global conflict still very much in progress, offering readers an immediacy and urgency that post-war histories rarely achieve. Jacob's prose is precise yet evocative, balancing the correspondent's duty for factual accuracy with a traveller's instinct for atmosphere and human detail — the weary soldier, the bustling bazaar, the ruins of a bombed Soviet city. The book stands as a significant document of wartime reportage, sitting comfortably alongside the dispatches of contemporaries such as Alan Moorehead and Alexander Clifford. For those drawn to the lived experience of the Second World War beyond the command maps and casualty figures, Jacob's journey raises a haunting question: what does a man truly discover about war — and himself — when he crosses three continents to find it?