Introduction
Reporting from the seat of war was undoubtedly the assignment that most tested the mettle of the Special Correspondent and Special Artist, but it was also the point at which some of their most important creative innovations were forged. At times, it turned the reporter into the hero of his own story. As The World put it in 1877, ‘Captain Pen, when he essays this rôle, must perforce have all the capacities of Captain Sword’.