Edward Behr

Edward Samuel Behr (7 May 1926 in Paris – 27 May 2007 in Paris) was a foreign correspondent and war journalist best known for his many years of work for Newsweek. News reports of his death confused him with the food writer of the same name. His parents were of Russian-Jewish descent, and he had a bilingual education at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and St Paul's School, London. He enlisted in the British Indian Army on leaving school, serving in Intelligence in the North-West Frontier from 1944 to 1948 and rising to acting brigade major in the Royal Garhwal Rifles at the age of 22. He then took a degree in history at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Behr is survived by his wife, Christiane. His early career as a reporter was with Reuters in London and Paris.More