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Once I Was a War Reporter:
Novelist Ernest Hemingway, who covered Spain's civil war and World War II, is reputed to have called war "the nastiest thing human beings can do to each other -- but the most exciting." Over the years war has exerted a pull on the then- or future-famous. Among them:
* Stephen Crane, author of "The Red Badge of Courage," reported on wars in Greece and Cuba.
* Winston Churchill used his fame as a correspondent (and hero) in the Boer War to launch his political career.
* Jack London covered the US fighting in Mexico in 1914. |