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Vincent Sheean 1899-1975

BBC foreign correspondent Jeremy Bowen chooses

IN PROFILE

Vincent Sheean was an American journalist, foreign correspondent and author. He reported from Palestine in the 1920s and also covered the Spanish Civil War and the Blitz. His 1935 memoir, Personal History, helped inspire Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 Hollywood drama, Foreign Correspondent.

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