After a bachelor 's degree in letters , he began in 1945 with '' La République du Sud-Ouest '' as a war correspondent in Germany , then entered in 1949 in the daily newspaper '' La Dépêche du Midi '' where he accomplished his entire journalistic career . He carried out all activities , from reporter to sports columnist , notably on the Tour de France ( thirty-seven tours covered ) , judicial columnist ( from the Dominici affair to the Klaus Barbie trial ) , and finally editor-in-chief . It covered presidential trips . He was sent to all hot spots , Indochina , Algeria , Kurdistan , Iran , China ... He was friend with Joseph Kessel , Kléber Haedens , Antoine Blondin . His stories were rewarded with the prizes in 1954 ( for his articles about '' l'Indochine disponible '' ) , the Albert Londres Prize in 1956 for his reports on the Rif War , where he was wounded ) . At thirty-five , he was the only journalist to have received these two major awards for reporting . In 1967 , he published in '' La Dépêche du Midi '' a series of reports on the genocide of the Kurdish peshmergas , '' Kurdistan ou la mort '' , later published in book . After the Munich massacre of 1972 , which he saw closely , he recounted his romanticized experience in '' Le Cap de la Gitane '' which was awarded the prix Interallié in 1974
Munich massacre
Munich massacre
René Mauriès