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Telegram from Geurnica: the Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent - Book Review
Contemporary Review, Oct, 2003
Nicholas Rankin. Faber and Faber. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 283 pages. ISBN 0-57120563-1. George Steer's most influential piece of journalism was his eye-witness report of the Nazi aerial destruction of the Basque town of Geurnica in 1937, published both in The Times and in The New York Times. The attack was the first example of blitzkrieg and the reports showed how Germany was helping Franco.
Not surprisingly Steer's name was added to the Nazis' 'most wanted' list of Englishmen. Steer, educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, was an unconventional journalist who had been born in Cape Town. His energy and his moderately leftwing views made his journalism both committed and effective. He also covered the Italian invasion of Ethiopia as well as the war in Finland and published six books in his lifetime but today he is little remembered. His early death whilst in the army in India (in 1944) and the fact that his young wife and his family destroyed his papers has left him a shadowy figure. Mr Rankin has overcome this lack by using the published works to great effect to rehabilitate a man who was both influential in forming modern British thought and who embodied in himself an important element in British Imperial history.
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