author
Frederick Palmer
1873–1958
A pioneering war correspondent and novelist, he reported from battlefields across Europe and Asia and turned those experiences into vivid books for a wide popular audience. His career stretched from the late 1890s through two world wars, giving his writing an unusual sense of immediacy and range.
7 Audiobooks
The Last Shot
by Frederick Palmer
Over the Pass
by Frederick Palmer
My Second Year of the War
by Frederick Palmer
My Year of the Great War
by Frederick Palmer
The Old Blood
by Frederick Palmer
Our Greatest Battle (The Meuse-Argonne)
by Frederick Palmer
About the author
Born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, in 1873, Frederick Palmer became one of the best-known American war correspondents of his era. He studied at Allegheny College and began his newspaper career in the 1890s, working abroad early on as a London correspondent before moving into frontline reporting.
Palmer covered a remarkable run of conflicts, including the Greco-Turkish War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and later World War II. Alongside his journalism, he wrote fiction, biography, and military history, drawing on firsthand observation to make distant events feel close and human.
His books include novels such as The Last Shot and works of reporting and history such as My Year of the War and America in France. He died in 1958, remembered as a writer who helped shape how American readers understood war in the first half of the twentieth century.