Arnaud de Borchgrave in the newsroom of The Washington Times.
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Sunday, 15 Feb 2015 04:30 PM
By David A. Patten
[From article]
Award-winning editor, war correspondent, and best-selling author Arnaud de Borchgrave, hailed as one of the most noteworthy journalists of the modern era, died Sunday after an extended illness. He was 88.
De Borchgrave served as executive director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C. He was a founding board member of Newsmax Media, as well as editor-at-large for United Press International. He served as Newsweek's senior editor and chief foreign correspondent for 25 years.
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Among the highlights of his storied life: At the age of 14 he and his family fled Nazi occupied Belgium for England; as a young man serving in the Britain's Royal Navy he was wounded storming Juno Beach on D-Day; he rose to become Newsweek's No. 1 foreign correspondent, and befriended and interviewed a roster of personages including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, and Ronald Reagan, among many others.
In July, de Borchgrave received the Legion of Honor, the French government's highest civilian distinction. In making the presentation, French Ambassador François Delattre called de Borchgrave "a World War II hero to whom France is eternally grateful, and one of the most remarkable journalists of our lifetime who is also a great friend of France and an exceptional individual."
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, Legendary Journalist, Dies
Sunday, 15 Feb 2015 04:30 PM
By David A. Patten
Sunday, 15 Feb 2015 04:30 PM
By David A. Patten
[From article]
Award-winning editor, war correspondent, and best-selling author Arnaud de Borchgrave, hailed as one of the most noteworthy journalists of the modern era, died Sunday after an extended illness. He was 88.
De Borchgrave served as executive director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C. He was a founding board member of Newsmax Media, as well as editor-at-large for United Press International. He served as Newsweek's senior editor and chief foreign correspondent for 25 years.
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Among the highlights of his storied life: At the age of 14 he and his family fled Nazi occupied Belgium for England; as a young man serving in the Britain's Royal Navy he was wounded storming Juno Beach on D-Day; he rose to become Newsweek's No. 1 foreign correspondent, and befriended and interviewed a roster of personages including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, and Ronald Reagan, among many others.
In July, de Borchgrave received the Legion of Honor, the French government's highest civilian distinction. In making the presentation, French Ambassador François Delattre called de Borchgrave "a World War II hero to whom France is eternally grateful, and one of the most remarkable journalists of our lifetime who is also a great friend of France and an exceptional individual."
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/de-borchgrave-obituary-war-correspondent-journalist/2015/02/15/id/624927/?Dkt_nbr=ezan2lvx&nmx_source=DailyCaller-Conservative&nmx_medium=widget&nmx_content=654&nmx_campaign=widgetphase2
Arnaud de Borchgrave, Legendary Journalist, Dies
Sunday, 15 Feb 2015 04:30 PM
By David A. Patten
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