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Bringing home the war
A bout with Covid-19 seemed irrelevant as brave and resourceful war correspondents brought us the awful suffering of Ukrainians
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Rohit Brijnath , Rohit Brijnath
Sometimes a story just needs a little fizz.
In 1877, while covering the Russo-Turkish war, Archibald Forbes was exhausted. The legendary war correspondent, trying to get a major story out, had been in the saddle or under fire in the trenches for three days and nights, with no sleep and little food, when he arrived in Bucharest.
