Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Christopher Buckley (12 May 1905 – 12 August 1950) was a British journalist and historian working for The Daily Telegraph newspaper.Buckley studied military history at Oxford before he started as a war correspondent in 1940. His reporting from multiple battles and front lines in World War II earned him international prestige. He was the author of Road to Rome, An Account of Military Operations in Italy, 1934–44 (1945) and wrote official accounts of military operations for HMSO. He was the author of two novels, Rain Before Seven (1947) and Royal Chase (1949). The first of these has been described as "something of a forgotten late golden age classic" in the crime fiction field (by Bob Adey in CADS, Crime and Detection Stories, Issue 67, March 2014, pg 34). In 1950, while reporting from the Korean War, he was killed by a landmine exploding under his jeep. He is buried at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea.. }
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- Christopher_Buckley_(journalist) abstract "Christopher Buckley (12 May 1905 – 12 August 1950) was a British journalist and historian working for The Daily Telegraph newspaper.Buckley studied military history at Oxford before he started as a war correspondent in 1940. His reporting from multiple battles and front lines in World War II earned him international prestige. He was the author of Road to Rome, An Account of Military Operations in Italy, 1934–44 (1945) and wrote official accounts of military operations for HMSO. He was the author of two novels, Rain Before Seven (1947) and Royal Chase (1949). The first of these has been described as "something of a forgotten late golden age classic" in the crime fiction field (by Bob Adey in CADS, Crime and Detection Stories, Issue 67, March 2014, pg 34). In 1950, while reporting from the Korean War, he was killed by a landmine exploding under his jeep. He is buried at the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busan, South Korea.".