xxviii, 426pp, some labelled black and white photographic plates. Grey cloth-covered boards; black and gilt illustrations on front and spine; top text block edge sprayed grey; grey endpapers. 4to. Volume neat, clean, bright and tight. Slipcase pristine.
William Howard Russell was a pioneering Irish journalist for The Times, widely regarded as the first modern war correspondent, famous for his vivid, influential dispatches from the Crimean War (1854-56) that exposed poor conditions and led to reforms, and later covering the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, and the Franco-Prussian War, defining war reporting with integrity and unflinching truth. This volume contains a compilation of his writing and reporting.
