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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
White ghost girls White ghost girls Alice Greenway The children of a war-photographer father and beautiful but remote mother, Frankie and Kate, two American sisters, grow up in Hong Kong during the turmoil of the Maoist revolution of the late 1960s. OL15841024W
His small-town family His small-town family Lorraine Beatty Nicki Latimer never expected to be back in her tiny Mississippi hometown - much less running a store with a baby on her hip. But when her father falls ill, Nicki will do anything to save the family b… OL17823249W
Reporting under fire Reporting under fire Kerrie Logan Hollihan The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists A profile of 16 courageous women, "Reporting Under Fire" tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to … OL19983572W
Sweet caress Sweet caress William Boyd "When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others defin… OL20010473W
The gun room The gun room Georgina Harding The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make hi… OL20042009W
Robert Capa Robert Capa Florent Silloray 86 pages : 31 cm OL20228350W
Girl with the Leica Girl with the Leica Helena Janeczek 333 pages : 22 cm OL21338299W
Tristísima ceniza Tristísima ceniza Mikel Begoña,Iñaket Mayo de 1937. La Guerra Civil asola el territorio español y se encamina hacia su fatal desenlace. Las bombas caen ahora sobre el monte Sollube vizcaíno y todo está por decidir: el futuro de España, y… OL22365750W
200 shots 200 shots Neil McDonald,Peter Brune This collection highlights the work of two great World War II photographers and presents an historical analysis of each shot, the photographers' reactions to their subjects, and look at the very natu… OL28950974W
Games of the hangman Games of the hangman Victor O'Reilly War photographer Hugo Fitzduane discovers a stranger's body hanging from a tree on his own property. The boy is identified as a local student, an apparent suicide. But when the body of a terrorist … OL3070885W
Lost over Laos Lost over Laos Richard Pyle "In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, the U.S.-backed Saigon regime launched a bold attack into Laos, hoping to cut North Vietnam's supply line, the fabled Ho Chi Minh … OL4197564W
Bearing witness Bearing witness Denise Leith Through the eyes and voices of war correspondents and photojournalists, this is an insight into the world of war, disease, and famine. 'There are two types of people in this world: those who have … OL5794085W
Shutterbabe Shutterbabe Deborah Copaken Kogan What if the protagonist in that age-old tale--boy goes to war, comes back a man--were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old… OL6003414W
Photojournalist Photojournalist Keith Elliot Greenberg Describes the experiences of a United Nations photographer who has recorded the terrors of war in such places as Lebanon, Cambodia, and Bosnia. OL87917W
El pintor de batallas El pintor de batallas Arturo Pérez-Reverte Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as he continues … OL992482W