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Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam 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...more
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few weeks ago
Another MUST read about the early days during the Vietnam Conflict where the young reporters and photojournalists did their level best to report and record the truth much to the dismay of Pres. Kennedy during his 2 year secret war and to the Vietnamese and American generals who lied to their people and to our Congress. Halberstam, Arnett, Browne and others were relentless in their quest for true...more
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few weeks ago
A hard read, but a very good book. I learned a lot about the Vietnam war.
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few weeks ago
Another must read taken from the perspective of several top journalists and photojournalists during Kennedy's secret war and during the offensives up to and including Tet. This is a book the government should be thrilled wasn't written at the time. Halberstam and others did their level best to disclose the lies and deceptions and this book corroborates same.
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