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Edward Lyell Fox

b. 1887

An American journalist and war correspondent, he wrote vivid first-hand books about Germany during World War I, bringing readers close to the politics, personalities, and atmosphere behind the front lines.

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Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany

Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany

by Edward Lyell Fox

About the author

Born in 1887, Edward Lyell Fox is best remembered as an American reporter whose work focused on Germany during the First World War. Library and catalog records identify him as the author of Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany (1915), and that book presents him as a special correspondent traveling with the Kaiser's armies and reporting from Berlin.

His published work suggests a writer drawn to fast-moving history and international affairs. In addition to Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany, records also list Wilhelm Hohenzollern & Co. (1917) and The New Gethsemane among his books, as well as a collaboration on The Secrets of the German War Office.

Fox's books are valuable today not just as period journalism, but as snapshots of how an American observer interpreted wartime Germany while the conflict was still unfolding. Reliable biographical details beyond his birth year are limited in the sources reviewed, so many parts of his life remain harder to pin down than his published work.