Vietnam: The Real War

by Associated Press, Pete Hamill (Introduction)

Overview

This collection of images from the Associated Press Saigon bureau is the ultimate photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War.

To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American life. These are pictures that both recorded and made history.

Author and journalist Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965, celebrates the achievement of these courageous photojournalists in a moving introductory essay.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613125663
Publisher:	ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date:	03/31/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	360,017
File size:	61 MB
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About the Author

The Associated Press won an unprecedented six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the Vietnam War. To create this book, the agency selected 300 photographs from the thousands filed during the conflict. Pete Hamill is an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor, and educator. The recipient of numerous awards, Hamill is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.