Book excerpt: This volume presents 25 Foreign Correspondents of the New York Times and their Pulitzer Prize-decorated works from the early 1930s to the early 1990s, covering political and social occurrences in countries like Argentina, Australia, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, EdD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany.