Osmar White

Osmar Egmont Dorkin White (born April 2, 1909 in Feilding , New Zealand , † 1991 ) was an Australian journalist , correspondent and writer . He also wrote under the pseudonyms Robert Dentry , EM Dorkin, and Maros Gray .

Life

In 1914, White moved to Australia with his family at the age of five and spent his childhood in Katoomba . He began his journalist career as a freelance writer for the Wagga Wagga Advertiser and as a casual writer for the Sydney Daily Telegraph while studying at Sydney University . From 1928 to 1933 he worked as a freelance author in South and Southeast Asia and in New Guinea .

He achieved fame through his reports from the war in the Pacific and the resulting book Green Armor . In late 1944, White was sent to Europe by Sir Keith Murdoch , where he was assigned to the 3rd Army under General George S. Patton when Germany conquered and the occupation of the Third Reich began. He wrote down his impressions in the book Conqueror's Road , which, although publishers had already been found, was banned by the censors in 1946 and not printed. The book by Harper Collins was only published in English in 1996 and it was published in German in 2005 under the title Die Straße des Sieger .

White received recognition for his unbiased and impartial reporting. Osmar Island in Antarctica is named after him. He died on May 16, 1991 in Melbourne.

Works

• Green Armor
• Conqueror's Road , 1945

Web links

• Osmar White in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Osmar White in the catalog of the German National Library