Moorhead, Alan

Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne , Australia . The training took place in Scottish College , bachelor at the University of Melbourne . In 1937 he moved to England , where he became known as the foreign correspondent of the London newspaper Daily Express . Writer, traveler, biographer, essayist, journalist - Moorhead became one of the most successful English-language writers of his time. In the same 1937, he married Lucy Milner, the leading female speaker in the same newspaper.

During World War II, Moorhead gained international recognition for his coverage and coverage of military campaigns in the Middle East and Asia , the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe. He was twice noted in the orders of the authorities. Awarded the Order of the British Empire . As recalled later, Australian critic Clive James : “Moorhead was there for battles and conferences, went all the way from North Africa , Italy and Normandy to the very end. His weighty but excitingThe African Trilogy “is still in print, and, quite likely, it is the best example of the characteristic merits of Moorehead as a war correspondent. He is able to develop a private episode in order to take into account its global implications. His style of reporting was world renowned and remained good. In combat, he was a significantly better reporter than his friend Ernest Hemingway . ” The biographies of Montgomery , written by Moorhead in 1946, are also highly appreciated: “Moorhead was able to notice ... ... that Eisenhower was superior to Montgomery in both character and judgment."

In 1956, his work “Gallipoli” (in the Russian translation, “The Struggle for the Dardanelles” ) about the disastrous military campaign of the First World War received enthusiastic reviews by contemporaries, although it was later condemned by the British historian Robert Rhodes James specializing in the Gallipoli operation, as "very incomplete and terribly overestimated . " However, in England, Moorhead’s book received a 1000- pound award from The Sunday Times and a gold medal from the Duff-Cooper Award - thus becoming the first owner of this award.

In 1966, Moorhead, his wife, younger son and daughter made a family trip to Australia. Subsequently, these visits became annual. There, in 1969, he finished the script for a television movie for his manuscript " Darwin and Beagle , but before the book was published, tragedy occurred. In December of the same year, he was taken to Westminster Hospital London complaining of headaches, where the angiogram accelerated the development of an extensive stroke . In the course of the subsequent operation, brain damage occurred that affected the communicative nerves. At 56, Moorhead, a man with exceptional abilities to express and communicate his thoughts, lost the ability to speak, read and write.

Through the efforts of the writer's wife, Lucy, his work continued “Darwin and the Beagle,” published in 1969, turned out to be a richly illustrated book. And in 1972, she collected her husband’s separated biographical essays and published them under the title “ Late education .

In 1983, in London, Moorhead passed away. He was buried at the Hampstead Cemetery .

• Tom Pocock. Alan Moorehead . - 1. - London: Pimlico, 1990. - 311 p. - ISBN 0-712-65031-8 .