Richard Harding Davis
The Great War Reporter:
Journalism 1914 - 1916
ISBN: 978-0-9907137-4-6
List Price: 24.95/Online Price: 19.95
Release Date: November, 2015
The well-traveled and photogenic Richard Harding Davis represented all that was edgy and glamorous about that new breed of American journalist: foreign correspondent. Fearlessly tramping by rail, road and horseback to the front lines of the “Great War,” he sent back colorful dispatches on the murderous trench warfare in France, shocking German atrocities in Belgium, and the convoluted fighting in the Balkan mountains, where tribal loyalties and murky national rivalries created a confusing strategic chessboard. The Great War: Journalism 1914 – 1916 is the first compilation of Davis’ reporting in history, a publishing landmark that will help students, historians and casual readers understand the most important single event of the 20th century.
Vivid Description of the
Shelling of Rheims Cathedral
New York Tribune/September 22, 1914
Rheims Cathedral Not Used by Army
New York Tribune/September 26, 1914
Rheims a Wreck Around Cathedral
New York Tribune/September 29, 1914
French Capital Sees Its Oldtime Activity
New York Tribune/October 3, 1914
The Germans in Brussels
Scribner's/November, 1914
The Appalling Waste of the European War
New York Tribune/November 1, 1914
"Under Fire"--By Richard Harding Davis
New York Tribune/November 8, 1914
Uncle Sam's Diplomats in War Zone
Do Him Honor
New York Tribune/November 15, 1914
War Correspondents' Fight for
Place in the Sun
New York Tribune/November 22, 1914
Rheims During the Bombardment
Scribner's/January, 1915
Wengler's "Two Shots"
New York Times/January 8, 1915
"They Can't Do That!"
New York Tribune/February 22, 1915
An Insult to War
New York Times/July 11, 1915
Poincare Thanks America for Help
New York Times/November 6, 1915
'War as Usual' Motto of France
New York Times/November 16, 1915
Allies in Serbia Fighting in the Clouds
New York Times/December 9, 1915
Allies in Saloniki Preparing to Stay
New York Times/December 11, 1915
Arras, The Unburied City
New York Times/December 12, 1915
Americans Escape Safely From Gievgeli
New York Times/December 13, 1915
Allied Casualties in Retreat Given as 1,700
New York Times/December 15, 1915
Luring Teutons on to Saloniki
New York Times/December 31, 1915
Saloniki is Full of Enemy Spies
San Francisco Examiner/January 2, 1916
Allies' Grip on Food Keeps Greece Still
New York Times/January 12, 1916
War? Nobody Knows What It Really Is Until He Attempts to Travel Abroad
San Francisco Examiner/January 16, 1916
French Made Merry in Serbian Retreat
New York Times/January 19, 1916
A Deserted Command
New York Times/January 23, 1916
A Peep at the Famous St. Mihiel Salient
New York Times/February 6, 1916
The War That Lurks in the
Forest of the Vosges
New York Times/February 13, 1916
Blinded in Battle, But Not Made Useless
New York Times/February 27, 1916
Verdun's Traps and Mazes
New York Times/March 5, 1916
President Poincaré Thanks America
New York Times/November 6, 1916
Richard Harding Davis
on Wartime Lifeboat Drills
"Apparently those in each boat were selected by lot . . .The only other persons originally in my boat were Red Cross nurses of the Post unit and infants. In trampling upon them to safety I foresaw no difficulty.
"But at the dress rehearsal the purser added six dark and dangerous-looking Spaniards. It developed later that by profession they were bull-fighters. Any man who is not afraid of a bull is entitled to respect. But being cast adrift with six did not appeal.
"One could not help wondering what would happen if we ran out of provisions and the bull-fighters grew hungry. I tore up my ticket and planned to swim."
--"President Poincare Thanks America,"
The New York Times, November 6, 1916
Funston Plans to Avoid Famine
The New York Tribune/May 5, 1914
Mexicans Kill and Burn U.S. Soldier
New York Tribune/May 11, 1914
R.H. Davis Tells Story of
Arrest by Huerta's Police
New York Tribune/May 11, 1914
Baseball and Bullfights in Vera Cruz
New York Tribune/May 18, 1914
Half Funston Men Dead, Mexicans Say
Huerta Doomed; Ex-Minister Flees
Vera Cruz Bares Secrets to Airmen
Mexicans Fire Volley on US Naval Aircraft Soaring at Vera Cruz
Anarchy Sure as U.S. Leaves Mexico
Bold Tejar Marines Scorn to be Rescued
Army Has Made New Vera Cruz
Army at Vera Cruz
Marks Time Under the Portales
New York Tribune/June 14, 1914
When a War is Not a War
Scribner's/July, 1914
Navy Suffers in Loss of Gibbons
New York Tribune/July 12, 1914
The Lusitania. Taking Sporting Chance, Wins
New York Tribune/August 13, 1914
London Though Eager for News,
Gladly Yields to the Censor
New York Tribune/August 15, 1914
Davis Sure Germans Were Withdrawing
New York Tribune/August 20. 1914
Like a River of Steel it Flowed,
New York Tribune/August 23, 1914
Germans Got Cold Cheer in Brussels
New York Tribune/August 25, 1914
Horrors of Louvain Told by Eyewitness;
New York Tribune/August 31, 1914
Germans Censor Notes of Envoys
New York Tribune/September 1, 1914
Tells Experience as War Prisoner
The New York Tribune/September 2, 1914
Says Kaiser, Breaking Word, Tricked Czar
New York Tribune/September 4, 1914
Eight American Writers Arrested
New York Tribune/September 4, 1914
Paris Standing Strain of War Complacently
New York Tribune/September 15, 1914
Public Opinion Ends Aero Visits
New York Tribune/September 15, 1914
War Blights Neighborhood of Soissons
New York Tribune/September 17, 1914
R i c h a r d H a r d i n g D a v i s A r t i c l e s
Jameson's Fatal Error
The Death of Rodriguez
New York Journal/February 2, 1897
Shafter and Sampson Go Ashore to Confer With General Garcia
How Hamilton Fish and Allyn Capron Died, Fighting Bravely
Rough Riders Gave Spaniards
The Rocking Chair Period of the War
New York Herald/August 2, 1898
New York Herald/August 2, 1898
Awful All-Night Fight at Pieters
New York Herald/February 28, 1900
Berliner's Magazine/June, 1900
The Boer in the Field
R.H. Davis on Boer War
New York Tribune/August 5, 1900
Along the East Coast of Africa
Marking Time in Tokyo:
The Forty-Eighth Ronin
Who Owns the Isle of Pines?
Collier's/June 2, 1906
Major Burnham. Chief of Scouts
5 Regiments Start From Galveston Today
The New York Tribune/April 24, 1914
Galveston Cheers as 5th Army Brigade
The New York Tribune/April 25, 1914
Soldiers Relieve Navy
The New York Tribune/April 30, 1914
Vera Cruz Marvels at Khaki-Clad Men
Davis Finds Huerta Men True to Type
Cruiser Sails with Vera Cruz Dead