The Mammoth Book of Journalism Book

	Introduction	ix
	A Man is Guillotined in Rome, 1845	1
	A Sleep to Startle Us, 1852	6
	The Battle of Balaclava, 1854	15
	Moscow Goes to Town, 1856	28
	Explosion Aboard the Great Eastern, 1859	36
	The Contest in Maryland, 1862	40
	The American Assault on the Pyramids, 1869	56
	The Suppression of the Paris Commune, 1871	63
	Extermination of the Kelly Gang, 1880	71
	The Attack on the Atbara, 1898	79
	Marines Signalling Under Fire at Guantanamo, 1899	83
	"Ah, You Cowards": The Second Trial of Dreyfus, 1899	90
	Escape, 1900	95
	The Story of an Eye-Witness: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906	107
	My Zeppelin Crash, 1910	114
	The Siege of Sidney Street, 1923	118
	Saw German Army Roll On Like Fog, 1914	122
	Death Comes to Mata Hari, 1917	125
	A Day That Shook the World, 1919	128
	Red Terror in Berlin, 1919	137
	A Trip Up the Volga, 1921	141
	Bugles Sound Taps for Warrior's Requiem, 1921	145
	Landru is Executed, 1922	151
	Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen", 1924	154
	Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1927	160
	A Book of Great Short Stories, 1927	164
	24 October 1929--Wall Street Crashes!, 1929	167
	Interview with Al Capone, 1930	172
	Red Day on Capitol Hill, 1931	175
	Reichstag Fire, 1933	179
	Are Wrestlers People?, 1934	182
	The Gresford Colliery Disaster, 1934	186
	Louisiana's Kingfish Lies in State, 1935	191
	Joe Louis Never Smiles, 1935	195
	Death in the Dust, 1936	200
	Justice at Night, 1936	205
	The Brookers, 1937	212
	The Loyalists, 1938	219
	A Portrait of Hitler, 1940	226
	France Surrenders, 1940	240
	A Report During the Blitz, 1940	245
	The Loss of Repulse, 1941	248
	The Death of Captain Waskow, 1944	259
	A Mushroom Cloud, 1945	262
	Hiroshima, 1945	265
	Hope This is the Last One, Baby, 1945	270
	"The Moon Under Water", 1946	274
	Sentence Day at Nuremberg, 1946	277
	The Grand National: The View from the Saddle, 1947	281
	Club Fighter, 1948	284
	Everest Conquered, 1953	294
	Billy Graham in New York, 1955	300
	The Wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, 1956	307
	The Revolution in Hungary, 1956	310
	Picasso, 75, Gets a Surprise Present, 1956	312
	The Sportswriter, 1957	315
	Little Rock--Violence at Central High, 1957	318
	Woman Stoned to Death, 1958	321
	Inside the Cuban Revolution, 1958	325
	Eye-witness at Sharpeville, 1960	338
	The Berlin Wall, 1961	341
	I Was a Playboy Bunny, 1963	346
	Kennedy Assassinated, 1963	353
	The Magic Bus, 1964	355
	Norman Mailer's Night Out, 1965	361
	A Vote for Bobby K, 1965	367
	London, The Most Exciting City in the World, 1965	370
	John Lennon: "We're More Popular Than Jesus Now", 1966	377
	England Win the World Cup, 1966	383
	Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?, 1967	388
	Airmobility, Dig It, 1967-8	392
	US Intelligence Agent in at Che Guevara's Death, 1967	399
	A Mule Cortege for the Apostle of the Poor, 1968	402
	P.F.C. Gibson Comes Home, 1968	406
	Woodstock, 1969	412
	My Lai: Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians, 1969	417
	But the People are Beautiful, 1971	421
	Fear and Loathing at the 1972 Republican Convention, 1972	434
	Drained Crystals, 1973	439
	Miss Woods Puts Her Foot In it, 1973	442
	Rattle of a Broken Man, 1974	445
	An American Reporter's Brief Brush with Arrest and Death, 1975	449
	A Member of the Manson Gang Tries to Kill President Ford, 1975	451
	Letter from a Fainthearted Feminist, 1981	453
	Max Hastings Leads the Way: The First Man into Port Stanley, 1982	457
	"It was the Christians": Massacre at Chatila Refugee Camp, 1982	464
	A Yankee in Outer Mongolia, 1982	468
	The World According to Spielberg, 1982	476
	Sacred Blues, 1982	482
	Britannia Runs the Shop, 1983	485
	Modern Life is Rubbish, 1985	493
	The Ultimate Step, 1989	499
	A Deadly Call of the Wild, 1989	508
	One Man's Sun-baked Theory on Athletic Supremacy, 1989	512
	McDonald's In Moscow, 1990	516
	The Bombing of Baghdad, 1991	518
	Back with a Vengeance: Refugee Rebels Battle to Conquer Hell, 1994	526
	Death at the Top of the World, 1997	529
	The Homecoming, 1997	532
	An Afghan Village, Destroyed, 1997	534
	The clock said 7.55--precisely the time the missle struck, 2003	539
	Acknowledgments	541