What Sport!
Paul Laity: George Steer, 5 June 2003
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
by Nicholas Rankin.
Faber, 256 pp., £14.99, April 2003,0 571 20563 1 Show More
by Nicholas Rankin.
Faber, 256 pp., £14.99, April 2003,
“... he was also strongly partisan; on occasions, he came close to ‘going native’, in the manner of John Reed with the Red Guards in Petrograd. His journalism always threatened to tip over into a more direct, military involvement – until he finally became, and died, a soldier. A South African born into a liberal, newspaper-owning family in the Eastern ... ”