Once Upon a Distant War : David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vientnam Battles

Once Upon a Distance War tells the stories of such young Vietnam war correspondents as Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, and David Halberstam, providing a riveting chronicle of high adventure and brutal slapstick, gallantry and cynicism, as well as a vital addition to the history they shaped. "Prochnau . . . tells a Vietnam story we haven't heard before. . . . Complex, witty, and humane."--Tobias Wolff. of photos. In Once Upon a Distant War William Prochnau vividly brings to life the adventures of the small group of young, audacious, and driven war correspondents who first put Vietnam on America's doorstep. With the lyrical, evocative writing of a novelist and the experienced eye of a prize-winning journalist, Prochnau brings back an almost forgotten time and place - before the earth was cratered by B-52s and scorched by search-and-destroy missions. Malcolm Browne, a tall and gawky thirty-year-old former chemist whose red hair would soon turn sandy, stepped down in a sweat from Flight One, Pan American's new around-the-world jet service. The adventures of a small group of young journalists during their years in Vietnam reporting on the early years of the war William Prochnau. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 518-524) And Index. A study of young war correspondents and the early Vietnam battles