Richard West (18 July 1930 – 25 April 2015) was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia.[1] He is described by Damian Thompson as "one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century",[2] with a career that covered the span of the Cold War in most of its theatres.
Starting off his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian, West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation",[3] he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland's secret police. Among his books are The Making of the Prime Minister (with Anthony Howard),[4]An English Journey (1981) and Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (1995).[5] Along with Patrick Marnham and Auberon Waugh, West was one of three signatories to a letter to The Times that called for a British monument to honour those repatriated as a result of the Yalta Conference; it was eventually erected in 1986.[6][7]
^Naimark, Norman; Case, Holly (2003). Yugoslavia and its historians: understanding the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Stanford University Press. p. 227. ISBN0-8047-4594-3.
^"Yalta Memorial". The Spectator. 12 July 1986. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^"Communist Victims/Twelve Responses to Tragedy". War Memorials Online. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^"A weird and wonderful life ends as I've gone from wife to widow". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
^Perkins, Eleanor (10 May 2015). "Veteran Fleet Street journalist dies aged 84". Kent Online. Retrieved 21 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
January 21, 2023
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