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Foreign correspondent : a memoir / H.D.S. Greenway.

Van Pelt Library PN4874.G6985 A3 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Greenway, H. D. S., 1935-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Greenway, H. D. S., 1935-.
Greenway, H. D. S.
Journalists--United States--Biography.
Journalists.
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Summary:
"David Greenway, a journalist's journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it's like to report a war up close"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A different world
Going to work for Uncle Sam and Henry Luce
Assignments in London and Washington
Coming into Vietnam
Away to war, home in Hong Kong
My luck runs out
The South Vietnamese hold the line
The Americans depart
A curious coda
The Fall of Saigon
Returning to Saigon
Covering Southeast Asia
On the Opium Trail
Laos : "The end of nowhere"
Cambodia : between the tiger and to crocodile
Indonesian New Guinea : stoning the Stone Age men
Australian New Guinea : missionaries, cannibals, & cargo cults
Muhammad Ali's holy war
Bangladesh : birth of a nation
The first Washington Post Bureau in Israel since 2000 years
Sadat comes to Jerusalem
Coming home
Oman : a colony in all but name
Bad days in Beirut
The Soviet empire crumbles
Balkan tragedy
Saddam Hussein goes to war
Baghdad nights
To the Khyber Pass.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781476761329
1476761329
1476761361
9781476761367
OCLC:
862788480

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