Harrison Salisbury (1908–1993)
Forfatter af The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
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Foreign correspondent par excellence, Harrison Salisbury reported on World War II, Russia under Joseph Stalin and Khrushchev, Vietnam during the war, China, and numerous other hot spots around the world. He also covered the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s and inaugurated the op-ed page of vis mere The New York Times, a paper he was associated with for much of his career. Born into an intellectual family in Minneapolis, Salisbury got an early start in his career. After graduating from high school two years early, he worked intermittently as a reporter for the Minneapolis Journal while attending the University of Minnesota. When he was expelled from the university because of his crusading journalism, he joined United Press, and by 1934 was working in its Washington, D.C., bureau. During World War II, he reported from England, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Russia. In 1949, Salisbury went to work for The New York Times as the paper's Moscow correspondent. For the next six years, he got to know Russia and in 1955 wrote a series of articles on it that won him the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Salisbury joined the Times board in 1962 and became assistant managing editor in 1964. Still he continued to make his journalistic forays abroad. From December 12, 1966, to January 7, 1967, he reported from Hanoi, North Vietnam, the first American journalist to gain entrance to that country during the Vietnam War. His dispatches earned him several awards, including the Overseas Press Club's Asian Award, although the idea of an American reporting from enemy territory upset many people in Washington and elsewhere. The dispatches were soon turned into a book, Behind the Lines---Hanoi (1967). Salisbury retired from the Times in 1973. He produced 23 books, several of them dealing with social and political life in Russia under communism. He also wrote two novels and two autobiographical books. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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The indignant years; art and articles from the Op-Ed page of the New York times (1973) 6 eksemplarer
Irena Galina 2 eksemplarer
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De 900 dage, bind 2 1 eksemplar
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LA NEIGE ET LA NUIT. TOME I. LA REVOLUTION EN MARCHE, RUSSIE 1887-1916. TOME II. LA REVOLUTION D'OCTOBRE. (1980) 1 eksemplar
Children of Russia; 1 eksemplar
Stalin's Russia and After 1 eksemplar
The Great Black Dragon Fire ( A Chinese Inferno) 1 eksemplar
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Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (1964) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 953 eksemplarer
Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett (1981) — Introduktion — 42 eksemplarer
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- Salisbury, Harrison
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- Salisbury, Harrison Evans
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- 1908-11-14
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- 1993-07-05
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Taconic, Connecticut, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Minnesota (BA|1930)
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- journalist
editor - Relationer
- Salisbury, Charlotte (wife)
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- The New York Times
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- Pulitzer Prize (International Reporting, 1955)
George Polk Award (1957, 1966)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1972)
Ischia International Journalism Award (1990)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969)
American Philosophical Society (1983) - Kort biografi
- Harrison Salisbury was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow (later bureau chief from 1949-1954) after the Second World War. Prior to that, he had spent 20 years with United Press International, much of it in the field, and was UPI's foreign editor during the last two years of the war. Salisbury constantly fought Soviet censorship to get the news out and won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1955. In addition, he wrote 29 books, including an autobiography.
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But as Harrison Salisbury writes in his epilogue to "The 900 Days", Stalin's paranoid jealousy of the city named for Lenin, and his resentment of the praise heaped on its heroic defenders, as reflected in "the Leningrad Affair" of the late 1940's, meant that the museum was closed in 1949, and that the books, plays and poems dedicated to the story of Leningrad under siege were not published or performed, at least not as of 1969, when Salisbury's "900 Days" was published.
So it fell to an American journalist to tell the epic story of besieged Leningrad, and he tells it well. Of the 900 days of the blockade (actually about 880 days), Salisbury devotes most of the book to the first 200 days and even earlier. The first several chapters dwell on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and Stalin's failures, first to respond to abundant intelligence about Hitler's intention to break their non-aggression pact, and then, after the shooting began, to react to the emergency on his borders.
Despite the disasters of the summer of 1941, the Red Army began to rally by the autumn and to slow down and finally stop the Nazi advance. The Baltic Fleet managed to retreat to its bases at Kronstadt and Leningrad. Salisbury then describes the desperate fight to hold the invaders at the gates of Leningrad in the winter of 1941-42. That was the worst winter any major city has suffered in modern history. As many as a million Leningraders starved to death. Nearly all those who survived were reduced to emaciated shells by the draconian rationing regime.
Eventually, life in the besieged city got "better". An ice road was built across frozen Lake Ladoga in the winter months to establish a tenuous connection to the "mainland". A Red Army offensive in January 1943 opened up one rail line to the outside, the "Corridor of Death", under constant German shelling. Not until a year later, the winter of 1944, were the Nazis and their Axis partners finally driven away from the approaches to the city.
Salisbury ably covers the political and military conflicts of wartime Leningrad, and related affairs in the Kremlin. But "900 Days" is most moving in its harrowing accounts of the poets, scientists, factory workers and mothers who struggled to stay alive and to keep their humanity intact under the worst of conditions. This book is a tribute to them.… (mere)