Passport: An Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few journalists have witnessed the defining conflicts of the twentieth century with the audacity and access of Wilfred Burchett, and Passport: An Autobiography stands as his remarkable testament to a life lived at the epicentre of history. From his coverage of the aftermath of Hiroshima — the first Western report from ground zero — to his front-line dispatches from Korea, Vietnam, and beyond, this memoir chronicles the extraordinary career of a man who refused to report the news from behind a desk, cementing his reputation as one of the most controversial and consequential war correspondents of his era. Burchett writes with the unflinching candour of a man who courted both admiration and condemnation in equal measure, his prose carrying the weight of lived experience and the moral urgency of a committed witness. Passport is as much a document of Cold War geopolitics as it is a personal narrative, presenting the world's great upheavals through the eyes of someone perpetually at odds with establishment power — his own Australian passport famously revoked for years. This is the story of a man who chose truth, as he saw it, over comfort, and the final question it poses to the reader is a provocative one: where exactly does the line between journalism and ideology lie?
Author: Wilfred Burchett
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Nelson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few journalists have witnessed the defining conflicts of the twentieth century with the audacity and access of Wilfred Burchett, and Passport: An Autobiography stands as his remarkable testament to a life lived at the epicentre of history. From his coverage of the aftermath of Hiroshima — the first Western report from ground zero — to his front-line dispatches from Korea, Vietnam, and beyond, this memoir chronicles the extraordinary career of a man who refused to report the news from behind a desk, cementing his reputation as one of the most controversial and consequential war correspondents of his era. Burchett writes with the unflinching candour of a man who courted both admiration and condemnation in equal measure, his prose carrying the weight of lived experience and the moral urgency of a committed witness. Passport is as much a document of Cold War geopolitics as it is a personal narrative, presenting the world's great upheavals through the eyes of someone perpetually at odds with establishment power — his own Australian passport famously revoked for years. This is the story of a man who chose truth, as he saw it, over comfort, and the final question it poses to the reader is a provocative one: where exactly does the line between journalism and ideology lie?