Dan Kurzman

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Dan Kurzman (born March 27, 1922 as Daniel Halperin Kurzman in San Francisco , † December 12, 2010 in Manhattan ( New York City )) was an American journalist and author of military history books.

Life

Dan Kurzman was born in San Francisco to Joseph and Lillian Kurzman. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley , served in the US Army from 1943 and graduated in 1946 from Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in political science . In the early 1950s, he worked for US newspapers and news agencies in Europe and Israel, and then became a correspondent for NBC News in Jerusalem . In 1960 his first political book was published, a biography of the Japanese Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke . In the 1960s, Kurzman worked as the Washington Post's foreign affairs correspondent . In 1965 he received the George Polk Award for foreign policy reporting. After he left the Washington Post in the late 1960s, he devoted himself to researching and writing contemporary history , especially military history , nonfiction.

At the end of his life Dan Kurzman lived in North Bergen ( New Jersey ). His wife Florence Knopf died in 2009.

Works

  • Kishi and Japan: The Search for the Sun , New York: Obolensky 1960 (German: Japan seeks new paths: political and economic development in the 20th century , Munich: Beck 1961)
  • Subversion of the innocents: patterns of Communist penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia , New York: Random House 1963
  • Santo Domingo: Revolt of the damned: the detailed eyewitness, inside account of the Dominican revolution , New York: GP Putnam 1965
  • Genesis 1948. The first Arab-Israeli was , New York: World 1970
  • The race for Rome , Garden City NY: Doubleday 1975, ISBN 0-385-06555-8 (German: Does Rome fall ?: The battle for the Eternal City 1944 , Munich: Bertelsmann 1978, ISBN 3-570-01472-X )
  • The bravest battle: the twenty-eight days of the Warsaw ghetto uprising , New York: Putnam 1976, ISBN 0-399-11692-3 (German: The uprising: the last days of the Warsaw ghetto , Munich: Bertelsmann 1979, ISBN 3 -570-02132-7 )
  • Miracle of November: Madrid's epic stand, 1936 , New York: Putnam 1980, ISBN 0-399-12271-0 (German: The November miracle: the battle for Madrid, autumn 1936 ; Munich: Heyne 1982, ISBN 3-453 -01613-0 )
  • Ben-Gurion: prophet of fire , New York: Simon and Schuster 1983, ISBN 0-671-23094-8
  • Day of the bomb: countdown to Hiroshima , New York et al .: McGraw-Hill 1985; ISBN 0-07-035683-1
  • A killing wind: inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal catastrophe , New York et al. McGraw-Hill 1987, ISBN 0-07-035687-4
  • Fatal voyage: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis , New York: Atheneum 1990, ISBN 0-689-12007-9
  • Left to die: the tragedy of the USS Juneau , New York u. a. : Pocket Books, ISBN 0-671-74873-4
  • Blood and water: sabotating Hitler's bomb , New York: Holt 1997, ISBN 0-8050-3206-1
  • Soldier of peace: the life of Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 , New York: HarperCollins 1998, ISBN 0-06-018684-4
  • Disaster! : the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 , New York: Perennial 2002, ISBN 0-06-008432-4
  • No greater glory: the four immortal chaplains of World War II and the sinking of the Dorchester , New York: Random House 2004, ISBN 0-375-50877-5
  • A special mission: Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII , Cambridge MA: Da Capo 2007, ISBN 0-306-81468-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florence Knopf at worldcat
personal data
SURNAME Kurzman, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author of military history books
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2010
Place of death Manhattan , New York City