Live from the Battlefield
From Vietnam to Bagdad : 35 Years in the World's War Zones
Published on 19. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-0-684-80036-3 (ISBN)
Description
From his controversial coverage of Vietnam, which incurred the wrath of President Johnson but won him a Pulitzer Prize, to his unforgettable and daring on-the-ground reporting of the Gulf War during one of the greatest airborne assaults in history, Peter Arnett has established himself as the leading voice of American war reportage. In Live from the Battlefield, one of the most highly celebrated journalistic memoirs ever written, Peter Arnett gives us an engrossing account of the Vietnam era, as well as an indispensable portrait of battlefield reporting.
Live from the Battlefield captures the adventures, gambles, and glories that have marked this master journalist's life with a vividness and intelligence rare in any memoir. But more than that, Arnett provides an insider's view of some of the greatest and most tragic events of the century in a book of singular and enduring importance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
671 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-684-80036-3 (9780684800363)
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Person
Peter Gregg Arnett is a journalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam from 1962 to 1965, mostly reporting for the Associated Press. Arnett also worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably for nearly two decades at CNN.