Wilfred Burchett

Wilfred Burchett was an Australian journalist and war correspondent whose reporting ranged across China, Burma, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, southern Africa, Cambodia, and China’s socialist politics. He became especially known for reporting from Hiroshima after the atomic bombing and for covering conflicts from the perspective of communist or otherwise anti-Western forces. A prolific writer, he published more than thirty books, including the memoirs *Passport* and *At the Barricades*.