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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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