Deborah Cohen is Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books including The War Come Home, Household Gods and Family Secrets, for which she won the Forkosch Prize and the Stansky Prize.
‘High-speed, four-lane storytelling … Cohen’s all-action narrative
bursts with colour and incident’
Financial Times ‘A rivetingly raw account’
Spectator ‘As effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as
its winsome and hyperactive characters’
New Yorker ‘Ambitious … a distressing, immersive recounting of how
denial, passivity and pacification aided the rise of authoritarian
regimes’
New York Times ‘Today the war news is available around the clock on
TV screens, in print, and on the internet. Back then the best
source of news was an intrepid band of young American newspaper
correspondents … prodigious research and sparkling prose. The book
is a model of its kind’
Wall Street Journal ‘Giddy with the tumultuous drama of the era…
the rollicking group biography of a colourful cabal of American war
reporters in the 1920s and 30s who landed seminal interviews with
dictators and revolutionaries alike’ Marina Hyde, Favourite Reads
of 2022 ‘Sheer brilliance of writing and storytelling . . .
entwining collective biography with the urgency of journalism’s
interwar critiques to produce a riveting and deeply
thought-provoking read’ Charlotte Elkins ‘A fresh, fast-paced
history of the twentieth-century’s most defining events through the
eyes of the foreign correspondents who dashed off to cover them … A
riveting narrative that unites public and private affairs with rare
fluency and power’
Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch ‘Beautifully written … A
fascinating reminder of the days when first rate correspondents had
not just access, time and money but real influence over world
affairs’
Caroline Moorehead, author of Martha Gellhorn: A Life ‘Brilliantly
conceived, beautifully written, this is a daring new history of the
world between the wars …Unforgettable’
Adam Tooze, author of Shutdown
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