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Martin Henry Donohoe
1869–1927
An Irish-born journalist with a taste for danger, this early 20th-century war correspondent turned front-line experience into vivid reporting and firsthand books. His writing brings distant campaigns and political upheavals closer, with the pace of lived adventure rather than dry history.
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With the Persian Expedition
by Martin Henry Donohoe
About the author
Born in Galway on November 10, 1869, he began his journalism career in Sydney in the 1890s, writing for the Courrier Australien and later for the Evening News and the Town and Country Journal. He went on to become a special correspondent for the Daily Chronicle and built a reputation as a reporter willing to follow major conflicts at close range.
Donohoe was known especially as a war correspondent. Reports about his career describe him covering the Boer War and later working across Europe and the Near East, including as the Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent. During the First World War, he was also connected with British military intelligence, an experience that fed directly into his later writing.
He is best remembered today for With the Persian Expedition (1919), a firsthand account of the campaign in Persia and Transcaucasia during the Great War. He died on January 19, 1927. Even now, his work stands out for its immediacy: it reads like the record of someone who preferred to see events for himself.