A stunningly superb account by an excellent author
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This is one of the most riveting books I've read in a long time, one which recounts the stories of the journalists covering the Vietnam War in its early stages. Prochnau has a superb ability not just to tell the story as it unfolded, but also to put the reader into the scene and to let him/her understand the complex political, military, cultural, diplomatic and logistical environment those young war correspondents faced. An absolutely fine tale, and a book you'll be sorry to finish.
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One good read about reporters and government blunders
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Everybody might hate the media, but this is as good an account as you'll get of how they work -- or used to. Toss in a first rate history lesson on the government blunders that got us into Vietnam in the first place -- all this told by a superb story teller, William Prochnau -- and Once Upon a Distant War is too good to pass up.
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