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Martin Henry Donohoe
1869–1927
An Irish-born journalist and war correspondent, he reported from some of the most dangerous flashpoints of the early 20th century and later turned those experiences into vivid nonfiction. His work has the immediacy of frontline reporting, with a close-up view of war, travel, and imperial politics.
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With the Persian Expedition
by Martin Henry Donohoe
About the author
Born in Galway in 1869, Martin Henry Donohoe began his journalism career in Sydney in the 1890s, working for the Courrier Australien and later for the Evening News and Town and Country Journal. Obituaries published after his death in 1927 describe him as a widely traveled correspondent who went on to become Paris correspondent for London’s Daily Chronicle.
Donohoe is best remembered as a war correspondent and military writer. Records and later editions of his work connect him with reporting during the First World War, service with the British Military Intelligence Corps, and a dramatic escape from revolutionary Russia before he joined the campaign later described in With the Persian Expedition.
His writing is rooted in direct experience, which gives it an energetic, eyewitness quality. Readers coming to Donohoe today will usually find a mix of reportage, memoir, and history, especially in books tied to wartime Persia and the wider upheavals of the early 1900s.