from Vietnam to Baghdad : 35 years in the world's war zones Arnett, Peter 1934- creator text biography Autobiography Biographies. nyu New York (N.Y.) Simon & Schuster 1994 monographic eng

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463 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm Peter Arnett is undeniably the dean of his generation's war correspondents, a breed apart. Daring, wily, willing to put himself at enormous risk for a story. Arnett is a thinking man and a man of action. From his youth in New Zealand in the 1940s, Arnett knew journalism would be his ticket to the world. And it was - to Bangkok; then to Laos, where Arnett swam across the Mekong River to file his dispatches from Thailand; and then on to Indonesia, where he traveled with Sukarno until he was expelled after only thirteen months for his reporting on the developing war. In 1962, Arnett was sent to Vietnam along with David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Mal Browne, Stanley Karnow and the rest of a new young group of foreign correspondents that would later include Dan Rather, Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings. When American ground forces were committed, Arnett went right in with them. His controversial coverage for the Associated Press incurred the wrath of President Johnson but won him a Pulitzer Prize. After the fall of Saigon, when many of his peers had gone, Arnett stayed behind to get the whole story. With the dedication, passion and intelligence that one finds in great foreign correspondents, Arnett has pursued the whole story ever since. After covering wars in Cyprus and Lebanon, he joined CNN in 1981. News was going live, twenty-four hours a day, and Arnett was going with it - from San Salvador to Moscow to Iraq. And then to Afghanistan, after the defeat of the Soviet-sponsored government, a place of anarchic conflict, where Islamic radicals plot to export terrorism to the mainland United States. Satellite communications have forever changed the way we see war. Arnett's on-the-ground reporting of the Gulf War from Baghdad had an immediacy and suspense we had not experienced before. No one who watched will ever forget. Now, in the same vivid eye-of-the-Desert-Storm way in which he reported the drama and danger of the Gulf War, Peter Arnett shares the adventures, the gambles and the glory of his lifemore than thirty-five years inside the world's war zones. Peter Arnett. Author is a New Zealander. Includes index. u-nz--- Arnett, Peter 1934- Arnett, Peter 1934- War correspondents New Zealand Biography Journalists New Zealand Biography 05.01 history of communication studies Journalists War correspondents New Zealand Arnett, Peter 1934- Geschichte Journalists New Zealand Biography War correspondents New Zealand Biography PN5596.A76 A6 Arnett, Peter, 1934- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994 (OCoLC)622710391 0671755862 9780671755867 93033817 http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/54712-1/Peter+Arnett.aspx http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/54712-1/Peter+Arnett.aspx NZ1 931006 20250623090621.0 ocm29258727 eng