Background
Christopher was born on May 22, 1905, in London, United Kingdom.
Christopher was born on May 22, 1905, in London, United Kingdom.
Buckley studied military history at Oxford before he started as a war correspondent in 1940.
His reporting from battles and front lines in World World War II earned him international prestige. He was the author of Road to Rome, An Account of Military Operations in Italy, 1934-1944 (1945) and wrote official accounts of military operations (eg, the History of the Second World War) for His Majesty"s Stationery Office (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, UK). 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. 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 of Korea.
