The Atlantic Telegraph (1865)

by Sir William Howard Russell

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2012-10-05

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Transatlantic cables TK

About the author

Sir William Howard Russell

1820–1907

A pioneering journalist helped define modern war reporting by bringing the realities of the battlefield to readers at home. Best known for dispatches from the Crimean War, he wrote with a vivid, eyewitness style that changed how wars were covered.

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