You'll Be Sorry by Gilbert Mant

The most common criticism about War Correspondents is that they write far too much about themselves and far too little about the campaigns they are reporting. Few of the public could have seen the magnificent satire in a piece by Alan Dawes, one of the best and most courageous of Australian War Corespondents, when he wrote, “I was the last War Correspondents,to enter Lae……..: Much of this criticism, however, is unfair because War Correspondents have suffered a very heavy toll in reporting the war on many fronts. As I write 37 have been killed…..This is by way of apology for the number of “I’s” in this story………….