Foreign correspondent
Subtitle: a memoir
By: H.D.S. Greenway
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781476761329; 9781476761367
Subjects: Journalists; Biography
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A different world; title: Going to work for Uncle Sam and Henry Luce; title: Assignments in London and Washington; title: Coming into Vietnam; title: Away to war, home in Hong Kong; title: My luck runs out; title: The South Vietnamese hold the line; title: The Americans depart; title: A curious coda; title: The Fall of Saigon; title: Returning to Saigon; title: Covering Southeast Asia; title: On the Opium Trail; title: Laos : "The end of nowhere"; title: Cambodia : between the tiger and to crocodile; title: Indonesian New Guinea : stoning the Stone Age men; title: Australian New Guinea : missionaries, cannibals, & cargo cults; title: Muhammad Ali's holy war; title: Bangladesh : birth of a nation; title: The first Washington Post Bureau in Israel since 2000 years; title: Sadat comes to Jerusalem; title: Coming home; title: Oman : a colony in all but name; title: Bad days in Beirut; title: The Soviet empire crumbles; title: Balkan tragedy; title: Saddam Hussein goes to war; title: Baghdad nights; title: To the Khyber Pass.