At the barricades : forty years on the cutting edge of history

Wilfred Burchett Is A Unique Radical Journalist, The Only Western Writer To Have Gained Access To All The Contending Capitals Of The World Throughout The Past Half-century. From The Thirties In Nazi Germany To War-torn South-east Asia, He Has Travelled The World In Pursuit Of The Momentous Stories Of Our Time. He Was The First Western Journalist To Reach Hiroshima, Just Two Days After Japan's Surrender. He Was With The Forces Spearheading The Allied Invasion Of Germany. He Sat On The Trial Of Cardinal Mindszenty. He Acted As Henry Kissinger's Go-between With The Vietcong. His Exclusive Dispatches Have Captured The World's Attention Again And Again. He Helped Smuggle Jews Out Of Germany; He Traversed The Famous Burma Road; He Met Chou-en-lai In China In The Late Forties. Through It All He Was 'just Doing His Job' - Reporting To The World What He Saw. Wilfred Burchett ; With An Introd. By Harrison E. Salisbury. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. AT THE BARRICADES Introduction Contents Blasted Visions New Worlds for Old Distant Pastures Away From It All Back to Reality Foreign Correspondent Into Battle Frontline China Of Blimps and Heretics Island Hopping On to Hiroshima That Old World Again Carving Up Germany Across the Curtain Trials Behind the “Curtain” Into Mao’s China Press War in Korea The Indochina Attraction Elastern Europe-1956 Getting Used to Moscow Icebreaking Vietnam Burns Again Into the Quagmire Risks for Peace Travels Without Passport Vietcong in Paris Prodigal’s Return Tête-à-tête With Henry Kissenger Peking and the Nixon Visit A Change of Scene Khmer Rouge and the Great Madness Summing Up Index At the Forty years on the cutting edge of history Wilfred G Burchett.