The book presents the story of the China’s Last Emperor, started when he was a toddler king and ended by his days as a common people. So I couldn’t criticize the story parts in it. I need to keep remind myself that it is a real story of a man who was the last emperor of China. I have a little trouble writing this review. Memorably entitled Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English?, it was retitled more blandly for the American market as Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent’s Life Behind the Lines.I rarely read a biography. The emperor “escaped the consequences of his actions with total impunity,” Mr. Behr said the emperor knew about the Nanking massacres in 1937, played a part in planning the attack on Pearl Harbor and failed to seize opportunities to surrender before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In “Hirohito: Behind the Myth” (Villard Books, 1989), he wrote that Japan’s emperor from 1926 to 1989 had not been the pacifist portrayed by his post-World War II image. His biographical conclusions were sometimes controversial.
Behr’s 19 books are biographies of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and Pu Yi, the last emperor of China. And in 1968 alone, he covered the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the student riots in Paris and the Soviet occupation of Prague.Īmong Mr. He went to Cuba shortly after the 1962 missile crisis. From Hong Kong, he wrote about China’s Cultural Revolution. Behr covered wars in Algeria, Angola, Congo, Vietnam, Lebanon and Northern Ireland. The year 1968 turned out to be a hectic one for Behr: he was in Saigon during the Tet offensive, in Paris for the student riots and in Prague when it was occupied by the Russians.īehr turned gradually from a career in war reporting to writing books and making television documentaries, including award-winning programmes on India, Ireland and the Kennedy family.Ī notable production was The American Way of Death, Behr’s look at America’s undertaking industry.ĭuring his years roaming the globe, Mr. Operating from Hong Kong as Asia bureau chief, Behr wrote on China’s Cultural Revolution, secured an interview with Mao Zedong and reported from Vietnam. He wrote about the unrest in Ulster, the fighting in Angola and the Moroccan attack on Ifni, the Spanish enclave in West Africa. Later he joined Time-Life as Paris correspondent, and in the late 1950s and early 1960s often covered the fighting in the Congo, the civil war in Lebanon as well as the Indo-Chinese border clashes of 1962. He then became press officer with Jean Monnet at the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg from 1954 to 1956. Edward Samuel Behr died on the 27th of May 2007 in Paris at the age of 81 he was a foreign correspondent and war journalist, who worked for many years for Newsweek.īorn on the 7th of May 1926, his early career as a reporter was with Reuters in London and Paris.
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