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Summary: A superb book, full of memories.
Review: This book is summarised for me by a quote from David Halberstam .. ' they could not, as we print people could, arrive a little late for the action, be briefed, and then, through the skilled use of interviews and journalism, re-create a scene with stunning accuracy, writing a marvelous you-are-there story that reeked of intimacy even though, in truth, we had missed it all. We could miss the fighting and still do our jobs. They could not.' To be a great combat photographer one had to get CLOSE to the action. That's why so many of them were killed. I spent a total of 15 months in Vietnam, from 1969 through 71. The grunt on the ground viewed reporters skeptically, suspecting that they got a lot of their stories in the bar of The Caravelle Hotel in Saigon. But not the photographers. They were regarded with awe. This book comes as close as can be done to evoking the feeling of the country and the war. My friends describe me as a little to the right of Gengis Khan; I think the book is superb. It has nothing to do with politics, just presenting the truth as best as can be done and honoring a bunch of brave men and women whose performance speaks for itself. If you buy only one book this year, this should be it
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Summary: Beyond emotion to the limit of understanding
Review: This book not only shows the younger generation what war was really like but the lives lost and a greater appreciation for the side of the soldier. There have always been stories told and photos taken of protestors against the Vietnam war and these photos do every soldier justice to prove to those opposed that what they did was beyond the call of duty.
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Summary: REQUIEM: BY THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM AND INDOCH
Review: This is an amazing book. It is in the style of book you only get for Christmas, by some caring person in your family that knows something of your experiences in Vietnam. These photographs show the risks these capable photographers took to achieve their results. It shows who they were and all the circumstances they underwent to portray this war. I was a helicopter pilot with the Outlaws in the Delta during 1966-67, and while we were not adequately covered by the press as the troops were "up north," we knew who these camera-carrying members of the journalistic trade were. A great item to have on the shelf with all your other Vietnamese books.
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Summary: REQUIEM: BY THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM AND INDOCH
Review: This is an amazing book. It is in the style of book you only get for Christmas, by some caring person in your family that knows something of your experiences in Vietnam. These photographs show the risks these capable photographers took to achieve their results. It shows who they were and all the circumstances they underwent to portray this war. I was a helicopter pilot with the Outlaws in the Delta during 1966-67, and while we were not adequately covered by the press as the troops were "up north," we knew who these camera-carrying members of the journalistic trade were. A great item to have on the shelf with all your other Vietnamese books.
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Summary: photographs from both sides
Review: this is an incredible collection of photographs from the men and women photographers who shot for both sides of the war in vietnam. The text is brillantly written, the bio sections at the end is very in depth and the photographs are incredible. A masterful book.
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Summary: A haunting, powerful book
Review: Though I am mostly too young to remember much about the Vietnam conflict, this book evoked powerful emotions as I went through it. It is a powerful and haunting tribute to the men and women who died (on both sides) to record this war on film.As one contributor put it, these images are often the last things these photographers saw before they died and that fact hovers nearby as you look at the pictures and read the stories of these brave men and women. An exhibit of these photos will be showing at the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort, KY, USA from Oct. 1-Nov. 13, 1999. It is free and open to the public on Tuesdays-Sundays.
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Summary: In the valley of the shadow of death...
Review: Very haunting book...to realize that these photos cost the lives of their subject and their progenitors is quite frankly unnerving...pick this book up, look through it, and realize the complicity of all (politicians, hippies, nationalists, foreign-sympathizers, etc.) in destroying the fabric of the American (and lest we forget, Vietnamese) psyche...and to those who see this as an attempt at historical revisionism or lopsided historicism, perhaps you should review your own cynical, spiteful and venomous viewpoint; or maybe stop wallowing in the childish desire that everything should be according to your own petty wishes...exactly the lesson we were supposed to learn from the war...
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