Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War…
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WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism "High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident."--Financial TimesNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARDONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, BooklistThey were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through