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a bit difficult to rate this book, Much about it is admirable a tale of three very interesting war correspondents, thoroughly researched in primary sources, wellillustrated many photographs plus an eightpage section of color illustrations by war artists, clearly written with caveat below, and nicely packaged.
For some, this may serve as an introduction to Alan Moorehead, my favorite of all bookwriting correspondents I highly recommend Moorehead's four books recounting his WW II experiences.
Alex Clifford comes up frequently in Moorehead's books, and "The Trio" will help you understand their special relationship,

But there are enough problems to keep "The Trio" out of the fourstar category, at least for me, For starters, the writer or perhaps his publisher has staked out a concept on which the book does not deliver, Jacket copy: "'The Trio' tells the story of three war correspondents, " Well, really only two of them, Alan Moorehead and Alexander Clifford Christopher Buckley, the wouldbe third, plays a very small role,

The author certainly has done his best to flesh out Buckley and he is forthright about all the efforts to "discover" Buckley that came to naught.
Buckley was

killed in the Korean conflict, and if he left behind a diary at which he hinted and any other papers, they never have come to light.
So Buckley information just isn't as available as that from the prolific Moorehead both published writings and that material preserved as "papers" and the dedicated letterwriter Clifford, whose mother apparently saved his every written word.


The book is divided into three parts, and the firstpercent is entitled "The Duo" and mainly deals with Moorehead and Clifford it's not until pagethat "The Trio" section begins in Sicily and that lasts onlypages.
You get the idea. Maybe the book needed a different title and more restrained jacket copy,

Three other "issues" we can't say "problems" these days:
The chronology sometimes isn't clear the author could have done a better job dating events or placing them in context.
For instance, at some point we discover Auchinleck in command in the Middle East, with no comment whatever about what happened to Wavell, I'm quite wellversed in the North African campaigns and still sometimes had to work to figure out the context,
The format of the chapterend notes could be improved, Several writers were responsible for multiple books cited by the author and it's not clear which book he's referencing, When he takes material from the several Moorehead books, he gives the title, e, g. , "The End in Africa" or "Eclipse," but when he cites something from three books by Russell Hill, after the first reference that identifies the book, the following references are just "Hill, p."
with no indication of WHICH Hill book, In reality, I think it refers to whichever Hill book he last identified, but that could have been and was many chapters ago, There are other authors responsible for multiple books, too,
Finally, there are editing or proofing or perhaps writing errors of the sort that make one doubt the The Trio's accuracy, Proofing I guess we can chalk up to the lack of proofing these days by nearly all publishers, But some editing "issues" should have been caught, the most egregious of which is theanecdote about Clifford's wife bowling with David O, Selznick, "who the year before had produced "'Gone With The Wind, '" Sorry, that movie came out inand EVERYONE well, almost everyone knows that,

OK, Mr. Grumpy, what's the bottom line Just that it could have been better, But that doesn't mean one shouldn't read "The Trio" if one's interested in the subject matter, Moorehead's four wartime books are more interesting, but this is complementary, Reading Moorehead gives a much better idea of what conditions were like on the front lines "The Trio" shows something about what happens when the correspondents take a step back.


Also, the bibliography presents many contemporaneous books and memoirs that can generate a nice long toread list, The first book to focus on the men behind the headlines of the famous "Trio" of World War II reporting

Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their thirties, whose friendship was forged during World War II.
They became so close that their colleagues dubbed them "The Trio," sometimes out of disgruntled rivalry, Alan Moorehead, Alexander Clifford, and Christopher Buckley worked for the Express, Mail, and Telegraph respectively, Clifford and Moorehead lived together more closely than most married couples, and all three correspondents spent the war years traveling relentlessly, chasing news, and writing stories, while being reliant on each others friendship and mutual trust.
They slept under the desert, in sumptuous Italian villas, in trains and army trucks, They were frequently in the line of fire, while their names became synonymous with the best war reporting, The Trio describes their relationship, what happened to each of them in the war, and finally, when the fighting was over, how success gave way to personal tragedy.
Richard Knott has a degree in History from the University of London, He has worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, teacher and management consultant, His previous books include: Black Night for Bomber Command Pen Sword,andFlying Boats of the Empire Robert Hale,and The Sketchbook War and The Trio The History Press,,, and.
Previously he has written two books on the teaching of English, a poetry anthology Wordlife, Nelson,, and a book of cricket quotations Cricket: Wit, Wickets and Wisdom, Running Press,.
His latest books are The Secret War Against the Arts Pen Swordand Perfect Day the Albert Press,, He lives in Clevedon, North Somerset, returning t Richard Knott has a degree in History from the University of London, He has worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, teacher and management consultant, His previous books include: Black Night for Bomber Command Pen Sword,andFlying Boats of the Empire Robert Hale,and The Sketchbook War and The Trio The History Press,,, and.
Previously he has written two books on the teaching of English, a poetry anthology Wordlife, Nelson,, and a book of cricket quotations Cricket: Wit, Wickets and Wisdom, Running Press,.
His latest books are 'The Secret War Against the Arts' Pen Swordand 'Perfect Day' the Albert Press,, He lives in Clevedon, North Somerset, returning to the west country where he was brought up after living for nearlyyears in Yorkshire, He follows the fortunes of both Bristol Rovers FC a passion and the two west country county cricket sides a mild love affair, Favourite writers when I was learning how to write: Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Dickens, Lawrence Durrell, Patrick O'Brian, Historians I like to read: Max Hastings, Antony Beevor, Robert Caro, Authors I look out for: Philip Kerr, Charles McCarry, Allan Massie, Robert Harris, C J Sansom, M J Miranda Carter, Alan Furst, John Le Carre, Aly Monroe, Donna Leon, William Shaw, William Boyd.
What I like about writing: the way research can absorb you and take you places you did not expect the serpentine process of constructing the telling of a story the craft itself the way words work.
The five best books I've read in the recent past: 'A Question of Loyalties' by Allan Massie 'The Camomile Lawn' by Mary Wesley 'Marking Time' by Elizabeth Jane Howard 'A Delicate Truth' by John Le Carre and 'The Fountain Overflows' by Rebecca West.
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