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Wilfred Burchett

Australian war correspondent who was the first Western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the atomic bombing. He reported the Korean War from the Chinese and North Korean side and the Vietnam War from the North and the National Liberation Front areas, and wrote widely on national liberation movements in Asia and Africa. His Australian passport was withheld from 1955 to 1972.

Lived: 1911–1983
Also known as: Wilfred G. Burchett · Wilfred Graham Burchett · Wilfred J. Burchett · Уилфред Бэрчетт · W.G Burchett
Authority records: Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources: Marxists Internet Archive — works online; Wikipedia — Wilfred Burchett

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1941	Pacific Treasure Island✓ — New Caledonia	F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1944	Bombs Over Burma✓	F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1944	Wingate Adventure✓	F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1946	Democracy with a Tommygun✓	F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1950	Cold War in Germany✓	World Unity Publications, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1951	People's Democracies✓	World Unity Publications, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1952	China's Feet Unbound✓	World Unity Publications, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1953	This Monstrous War✓	J. Waters, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1955	North of the Seventeenth Parallel✓ Self-published from 2 Pham Su Manh, Hanoi. Later editions followed from People's Publishing House, Delhi (1956), and Red River Publishing House, Hanoi (1957).	Published by the author, Hanoi	Open Library
1961	Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin — First Man in Space	A. Gibbs & Phillips, London	Open Library
1962	Come East, Young Man!✓	Seven Seas Publishers, Berlin	Open Library · Open Library
1963	The Furtive War✓ — The United States in Vietnam and Laos	International Publishers, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1965	Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerilla War✓	International Publishers, New York	Open Library · Open Library
1966	Vietnam North✓	International Publishers, New York	Open Library · Library of Congress record
1968	Vietnam Will Win!✓	Guardian, New York	Open Library
1969	Passport✓ — An Autobiography	Thomas Nelson, Melbourne	Open Library · WorldCat record
1974	My War with the CIA — The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk	Penguin Books, Harmondsworth	Open Library
1977	Grasshoppers and Elephants✓ — Why Viet Nam Fell	Urizen Books, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1981	At the Barricades✓ — Forty Years on the Cutting Edge of History	Times Books, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record

Editions in the catalogue

Editions of Wilfred Burchett by year: 63 dated titles, 1947–2025, most in 1965 (5). Lines mark died 1983.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1940s	2
1950s	10
1960s	28
1970s	14
1980s	5
1990s	2
2010s	1
2020s	1

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1947	Sonnenaufgang über Asien✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	Not recorded
1948	Sonnenaufgang über Asien✓ Volk- und Welt-Reihe	Wilfred G. Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1950	Der kalte Krieg in Deutschland✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1950	Der kalte Krieg in Deutschlang✓	Wilfred Burchett & Elisabeth Rompe-Baumgarten	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1951	Háborús elökészületek Nyugat-Németországban✓	Wilfred G. Burchett & Jozefa Gábor	Kossuth Könyvkiadó	Hungarian
1952	China verändert sich✓	Wilfred G. Burchett, Anni Seipel & Gottfried Lessing	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1952	China's Feet Unbound✓Free — Wilfred G[raham] Burchett	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Lawrence & Wishart	English
1953	Korea kämpft für den Frieden✓	Wilfred G. Burchett & Roswitha Czollek	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1953	人民民主主義の國々 — ルポルタージュ青木文庫, 143, 147	Wilfred G. Burchett & 坂仁山田	Aoki Shoten	Japanese
1956	North of the Seventeenth Parallel✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett	People's Publishing House (New Delhi)	English
1959	An den Ufern des Mekong✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett, Wilfred G. Burchett & Roswitha Czollek	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1959	Mekong Upstream✓ — A Visit to Laos and Cambodia Seven Seas Books -- No.7	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Seven Seas Books	English
1962	Come East, Young Man!✓ Seven Seas Books	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Seven Seas Books	English
1962	Land der Verheissung✓ — New life in the new look	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1962	Land der Verheißung✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1963	Schatten über dem Dschungel✓ — Vietnam und Laos heute	Wilfred G. Burchett & Paul Merker	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1963	The Furtive War✓Free — The United States in Vietnam and Laos New World Paperbacks, NW-34	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1964	De heimelijke oorlog✓ — De Verenigde Staten in Vietnam en Laos N T Reeks	Wilfred G. Burchett	Uitgeverij Pegasus	Dutch
1964	J'ai visité les zones libérées du Sud-Vietnam✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi)	French
1964	My Visit to the Liberated Zones of South Vietnam✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi)	English
1965	Partisanen contra Generale✓ — Südvietnam 1964	Wilfred G. Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1965	Partisanen contre Generale✓ — Südvietnam 1964	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1965	Viaggio nelle zone liberate del sud Vietnam✓	Wilfred Burchett	Edizioni Oriente	Italian
1965	Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerilla War✓Free New World Paperbacks, NW-55	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1965	Vojna v džungljach Južnogo Vʺetnama✓ — Reportaz	Wilfred G. Burchett	Progress Publishers	Russian
1966	My Visit to the Liberated Zones of South Vietnam✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi)	English
1966	Partisanen contra Generale✓ — Südvietnam 1964	Wilfred G. Burchett & Gerhard Böttcher	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1966	Vietnam✓Free — Inside Story of the Guerilla War New World Paperbacks	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1966	Vietnam North✓ New World Paperbacks	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1966	Vietnam North✓ — A First-Hand Report	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Lawrence & Wishart	English
1967	Hanoï✓ — Sous les bombes Cahiers libres; 92-93	Wilfred G. Burchett	Éditions Maspero	French
1967	Hanoi sotto le bombe✓ Nostro tempo; 11	Wilfred G. Burchett & Bertrand Russell	Editori Riuniti	Italian
1967	Partisanen contra Generale✓ — Südvietnam, 1964-67	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1967	Vietnam North✓ New World Paperbacks, NW-60	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1968	A nouveau la Corée✓Free Cahiers libres; 113	Wilfred G. Burchett & J.-P Rospars	Éditions Maspero	Not recorded
1968	Again Korea✓Free New World Paperbacks, NW-85	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1968	Pourquoi le Vietcong gagne✓ Cahiers libres; 135/136	Wilfred G. Burchett & J.-P Rospars	Éditions Maspero	Not recorded
1968	Vietman✓ — Inside Story of the Guerilla War	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1968	Vietnam✓Free — Inside Story of the Guerilla War	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1969	Narod Juznogo V'etnama pobedit✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Progress Publishers	Russian
1970-01-01	The Second Indochina War✓ — Cambodia and Laos New World Paperbacks, NW-132	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
1974	La lucha por los derechos nacionales de Corea✓	Wilfred Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Pyongyang)	Spanish
1974	La Lutte pour les droits nationaux de la Corée✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Pyongyang)	French
1974	Mein Krieg mit dem CIA✓ — Kambodschas Kampf um die nationale Unabhängigkeit Internationale Reihe; 6	Norodom Sihanouk & Wilfred G. Burchett	Oberbaumverlag	German
1974	The Struggle for Korea's National Rights✓Free	W. G. Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Pyongyang)	English
1975	China✓ — Das neue Leben Internationale Reihe; 8	Wilfred G. Burchett & Rewi Alley	Oberbaumverlag	German
1976	Portugal: año uno de la revolución✓ Serie Popular Era; 39	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Ediciones Era	Spanish
1977	China, otra calidad de vida✓ Laia Paperback; 30	Wilfred Burchett, Rewi Alley & Ignacio Hierro	Editorial Laia	Spanish
1977	Les putains de l'imperialisme✓ — Les mercenaires en Afrique Cahiers libres; 332	Wilfred G. Burchett & Derek Roebuck	Éditions Maspero	French
1977	Vietnam — Un + un = un Cahiers libres, 326-327	Wilfred G. Burchett	Éditions Maspero	French
1977	Vietnam: un + un✓ — = Un [franz.]: Wilfred Burchett; La défaite américaine au Vietnam. Trad. de l'anglais par Henriette Nizan Cahiers libres; 326/327	Wilfred G. Burchett & Henriette Nizan	Éditions Maspero	Not recorded
1977	Vietnam: un + un sont un✓ — La défaite américaine au vietnam	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Éditions Maspero	French
1979	Soldaty na prodazu✓ — Naemniki segodnja Imperializm	Wilfred G. Burchett & Derek Roebuck	Progress Publishers	Russian
1979	Наемниците — Професия - убийци!	Wilfred G. Burchett, Derek Roebuck & Gilermo Angelov	Partizdat	Bulgarian
1981	The China-Cambodia-Vietnam Triangle✓Free	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Zed Books	English
1983	Shadows of Hiroshima✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Verso Books	English
1987	Shadows of Hiroshima	Wilfred Graham Burchett	Verso Books	English
1987	Vnov' Chirosima✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Progress Publishers	Not recorded
1987	Вновь Хиросима	Wilfred G. Burchett, Madeleine Riffaud, Ivan Shchedrov & V. K. Vadimov	Progress Publishers	Russian
1990	归来的幽灵✓ — Chaoxian zhan zheng fu lu wen ti nei mu	Alan Winnington & Wilfred Graham Burchett	China Youth Press	Chinese
1993	Vietnam North✓	Wilfred Graham Burchett	International Publishers	English
2011	Việt Nam & Hồ Chí Minh✓	Wilfred G. Burchett	Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi)	Vietnamese, English
2025	The Captains' Coup✓Free — From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974-1976)	Wilfred Graham Burchett, Timothy Dale Walker, Daniela F. Melo & Tariq Ali	Verso Books	English