Inner Mongolia. In 1939 he became foreign correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) and worked increasingly as a reporter rather than as a photographer. As of 1940, he was a correspondent for Life. He was a war correspondent in Poland, Greece, Iraq and Iran; from 1942 to 1945 he was stationed in Washington and was an observer at the San Francisco Conference, the Yalta Conference and the beginnings of the United Nations. From 1946 to 1949 he went again to Beijing, where he had to flee from the invasion of the communists and lost a large number of his photographic works during his escape. From 1949 to 1953 he worked as a correspondent in the Middle East. An accident in Korea in 1953 - he tripped over a tree root and suffered a complicated hip fracture - ended his professional career. He withdrew into private life and lived in Torremolinos and Ronda in Spain until his death, where he died shortly after his 83rd birthday. Portfolio Paul Hofer, Bosshard's godchild and heir, bequeathed the written legacy to the Archive for Contemporary History (AfZ) of ETH Zurich. The holdings comprise diary-like notes and collections of articles, including almost all of the NZZ reports from 1939 to 1956, as well as documents and manuscripts relating to his books, supplemented by 20,000 positives and negatives, slides, glass plates, large albums and films. The , which owns the majority of the collection of negatives and supplementary materials, carried out a project co-financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation together with the AfZ, the result of which was a complete inventory of both holdings, a book publication and, in 1997/98, an exhibition in the Kunsthaus Zürich on Boshard's work. Publications Durch Tibet und Turkestan. 1930. Indien kämpft! 1931. Erlebte Weltgeschichte. Reisen und Begegnungen eines neutralen Berichterstatters im Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Mit 44 Aufnahmen., Fretz und Wasmuth 1947. Kühles Grasland Mongolei, Büchergilde Gutenberg 1952. Gefahrenherd der Welt, Büchergilde Gutenberg 1954. Generäle, Könige, Rebellen. 1954. Thut, Geschichte aus dem Sudan, Fretz & Wasmuth 1960. Im goldenen Sand von Asswan, Orell Füssli 1962. Photo material Boshard's estate at the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur contains extensive photographic material on his travels and photo reportages, including Plantation work and gemstone trade in the Far East 1919-1925, Expeditions 1926-1932 Kashmir, Central Asia, India, Afghanistan, Siam, Kama, Shan States, Upper Mekong Valley, French Laos, Annam, Japan-China War 1931/32, Singapore, Bangkok, Philippines, Japan;