Telegram from Guernica - Nicholas Rankin
Title: Telegram from Guernica Author: Nicholas Rankin Publisher: Faber & Faber, London Year Published: 2003 Started reading: 18 March 2024 From the back cover: George Lowther Steer (1909- 1944) was a classical scholarwho fought against dictatorship. Perhaps our greatest war correspondent, he reported the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Russian invasion of Finland and single-handedly exposed the truth behind Nazi involvement in the bombing of Guernica in 1937. In 1940 he joined the British Army and pioneered front-line psychological operations in Africa and Asia. Nicholas Rankin's exhilarating biography evokes the restless life and turbulent times of a warrior for freedom, whose apt epitaph was 'scriptor et miles', writer and soldier. #reading #books #bookstagram #read