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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.
Live from the Battlefield
by Arnett, PeterEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1995-01-01
Publisher(s): Touchstone
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Peter Arnett is an international correspondent for CNN. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Memorial Award, the President's Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Overseas Press Club, three Sigma Delta Chi awards for foreign correspondence from the Professional Society of Journalists, an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, three ACE awards from the National Cable Television Association, and many other honors. He lives in McLean, Virginia.
Table of Contents
| 1934-1962 | |
| School Days | p. 15 |
| In the News Business | p. 25 |
| En Route to Asia | p. 31 |
| Bangkok World | p. 36 |
| The City of the Moon | p. 45 |
| The Coup | p. 53 |
| Jakarta | p. 57 |
| 1962-1975 | |
| Saigon | p. 73 |
| First Combat | p. 32 |
| Ap Bac | p. 38 |
| Death by Fire | p. 98 |
| The Pagoda Raids | p. 103 |
| The New Ambassador | p. 107 |
| The Coup | p. 119 |
| Marriage | p. 130 |
| Getting Along | p. 137 |
| Song Be | p. 147 |
| Schwarzkopf | p. 151 |
| The 173rd | p. 160 |
| Supply Column 21 | p. 169 |
| Defying the Odds | p. 175 |
| Obits | p. 178 |
| Colleagues | p. 183 |
| The "Long Bloody Mile" | p. 193 |
| At War with Westy | p. 199 |
| Da Nang | p. 218 |
| "The Light at the End of the Tunnel" | p. 226 |
| The Tet Offensive | p. 237 |
| Destroying the Town to Save It | p. 245 |
| The Forgotten Men | p. 260 |
| Clashing with Gallagher | p. 264 |
| End of the Obsession | p. 268 |
| Journey to the Other Side | p. 272 |
| The Beginning of the End | p. 283 |
| The Fall of Saigon | p. 290 |
| April 30, 1975 | p. 298 |
| 1974-1990 | |
| On the Road | p. 311 |
| Severing the Ties That Bind | p. 320 |
| In the Trenches with CNN | p. 324 |
| New Horizons | p. 337 |
| 1990-1991 | |
| To Baghdad | p. 347 |
| Day One, January 17 | p. 365 |
| Day Two | p. 375 |
| Day Three | p. 377 |
| Day Four | p. 378 |
| Day Five | p. 381 |
| Day Six | p. 384 |
| Day Seven | p. 386 |
| Day Eight | p. 388 |
| Day Nine | p. 391 |
| Day Ten | p. 394 |
| Day Eleven | p. 397 |
| "Baghdad Pete" | p. 406 |
| Anger in Amiriya | p. 410 |
| Last Broadcast | p. 416 |
| 1993 | |
| Kabul, Afghanistan | p. 423 |
| Index | p. 443 |
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