On the frontlines of the television war : a legendary war cameraman in Vietnam / Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki ; foreword by Ted Koppel ; edited by Terry Irving.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirashiki, Yasutsune, author.

Contributor:

Koppel, Ted, writer of foreword.

Irving, Terry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--History.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] ; Oxford, [England] : Casemate Publishers, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

" The eyewitness accounts of the many phases of the war in this memoir bring events to life as if they had happened yesterday" ( Vietnam Veterans of America Book Reviews ). On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera, but without a job or the slightest grasp of English, and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975, when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls of the best battle memoirs, but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice. If this was truly the first "television war, " then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms. An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book has been completely recreated for an international audience. "Tony Hirashiki is an essential piece of the foundation on which ABC was built... Tony reported the news with his camera and in doing so, he brought the truth about the important events of our day to millions of Americans." -David Westin, former President of ABC News

Contents:

Front Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword Ted Koppel

Editor's Note Terry Irving

Preface Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki

PART I: GOOD LUCK OMIKUJI

1 Happy Valley

2 Rookie

3 Teacher

4 Hawks or Doves

5 The Bureau

6 Con Thien

7 Meet the Bosses

8 Independent Guy

9 He Loved Mozart

10 Son of a Minister

11 Veteran

12 Tuckner's Crouc

PART II: BAD LUCK OMIKUJI

13 Competition

14 Charming Dictator

15 Reinforcements

16 Photographers

17 American Guy

18 Documentarian

19 Quiet in Kontum

20 Roger Returns

21 Battle of An Loc

22 Quang Tri

23 Survivor's Guilt

24 Ceasefire

25 Fall of Cambodia

26 Fall of Saigon

Epilog

Acknowledgments and Thanks

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 6, 2017).

ISBN:

9781612004730

1612004733