West, Richard, 1930-2015

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Name (Latin)
West, Richard, 1930-2015
Other forms of name
West, Richard, 1930-
Date of birth
1930-07-18
Date of death
2015-04-25
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1930
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 109849709
Wikidata: Q7329902
Library of congress: n 50004509
OCoLC: oca00040092
Sources of Information
  • Howard, A.The road to Number 10, 1965.
  • The life & strange surprising adventures of Daniel Defoe, 1997:t.p. (Richard West) jkt. (journalist and freelance writer for 40 yrs.; lists works)
Wikipedia description:

Richard West (18 July 1930 – 25 April 2015) was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia. He is described by Damian Thompson as "one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century", with a career that covered the span of the Cold War in most of its theatres.

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