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Edward Behr, noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history and good eating and who enjoyed a career as a journalist, has died aged 81.
Behr covered conflicts across the globe - from the French-Algerian conflict to the Vietnam war - for several publications, including Newsweek magazine. His wide travels, fed by reporting experiences, inspired a number of books, including The Algerian Problem (1961), The Last Emperor (1987), Hirohito: Behind the Myth (1989) and Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus (1991) about the now-fallen Romanian dictator and his wife.
The Paris-born Behr's other interests provided fodder for books including The Artful Eater (1993) and Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America (1996). He also provided a look at his own trade with Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? (1981), a question reportedly called out by a British reporter who was looking for sources during a crisis in Congo.
