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Richard West (journalist)
Richard West (18 July 1930 – 25 April 2015) was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard West, writer - obituary )〕 He is described by Damian Thompson as "one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century",〔Damian Thompson, ("The passing of a magnificent contrarian" ), ''The Spectator'', 26 April 2015.〕 with a career that covered the span of the Cold War in most of its theatres.
==Life and career==
Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia.
Starting off his journalistic career at the ''Manchester Guardian'', West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation",〔Neal Ascherson, ("Richard West obituary" ), ''The Guardian'', 27 April 2015.〕 he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland's secret police. Among his books are ''The Making of the Prime Minister'' (with Anthony Howard), ''An English Journey'' (1981) and ''Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia'' (1995).
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