Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad : 35 Years in the World's War Zones

ISBN-13: 9780684800363 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 480 str.

Peter Arnett

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With the passion and intelligence that have made him one of the most respected and renowned reporters of this century, Peter Arnett recounts the drama and danger of his 35 years spent in the world's hottest war zones. 16 pages of photos.

From his controversial coverage of Vietnam, which incurred the wrath of President Johnson but won him a Pulitzer Prize, to his unforgettable and daring on-the-ground reporting of the Gulf War during one of the greatest airborne assaults in history, Peter Arnett has established himself as the leading voice of American war reportage. In Live from the Battlefield, one of the most highly celebrated journalistic memoirs ever written, Peter Arnett gives us an engrossing account of the Vietnam era, as well as an indispensable portrait of battlefield reporting.PLive from the Battlefield captures the adventures, gambles, and glories that have marked this master journalists life with a vividness and intelligence rare in any memoir. But more than that, Arnett provides an insiders view of some of the greatest and most tragic events of the century in a book of singular and enduring importance.