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Wat is ruimte waard

In de ruimte lonkt het nieuwe goud. Waar vroeger verre landschappen gekoloniseerd werden, zijn nu planeten aan de beurt. Miljardairs lanceren de ene raket na de andere, er zijn plannen voor mijnbouw op asteroïden en voor een tankstation op de maan voor wie op doorreis is naar Mars. Maar ten koste van wat? In dit …

Blood & Iron

A well observed account of the opening campaigns of the Great War in Europe There have been many books about warfare written by those who experienced war at first-hand. Until the middle years of the nineteenth century these authors were invariably amateurs, and primarily serving soldiers or diplomats. All that changed with the emergence of …

De Correspondent in Amerika

Toen Rob Wijnberg zes jaar geleden met enkele getrouwen de domeinnaam decorrespondent.nl vastlegde, claimde hij ook meteen thecorrespondent.com. Ooit zouden ze internationaal gaan, wist Wijnberg, want er was niets Nederlands aan het soort journalistiek dat De Correspondent zou gaan bedrijven. In 2017, terwijl De Correspondent in Nederland het zwaarste jaar uit zijn geschiedenis meemaakte, verhuisden …

Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later-after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based …

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world 'Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious' Telegraph In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged …

Newsweek Insights - The Aftermath

In the summer of 2014 a 50-day conflict between Gaza and Israel saw the loss of over 2,200 Gazan lives, including scores of families classified as "erased". The world looked on with a mixture of horror and indifference, and the debate about the rights and wrongs polarised around intractable pro-Israeli or pro-Gazan positions. Sarah Helm …

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales- Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11)

Discover the Korean War through the eyes of the journalist who covered it in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a …

Barnes & Noble Digital Library - Claudius Bombarnac (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

In the spirit of Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne’s 1893 adventure follows a young reporter assigned to cover the Grand Transasiatic Railway, running between Turkestan and China. While looking for his article’s hero, Bombarnac finds himself traveling with a man trying to break the global-travel speed record, a stowaway, and robber-warlords seeking an …

Confessions from Correspondentland

The inside story of a treasured profession, in the footsteps of Confessions of a GP and Kitchen Confidential