Hirashiki, Yasutsune

On the frontlines of the television war : a legendary war cameraman in Vietnam / Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki ; foreword by Ted Koppel ; edited by Terry Irving. - 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plate : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

"This book is a translated and revised edition of the original Japanese title: Once I Dreamed of Being Robert Capa (Kodansha, two volumes, 2008)." -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-357) and index.

pt.1: Good luck Omikuji
Happy Valley
Rookie
Teacher
Hawks or Doves
The bureau
Con Thien
Meet the bosses
Independent guy
He loved Mozart
Son of a minister
Veteran
Tuckner's crouch
pt. 2: Bad luck Omikuji
Competition
Charming dictator
Reinforcements
Photographers
American guy
Documentarian
Quiet in Kontum
Roger returns
Battle of An Loc
Quang Tri
Survivor's guilt
Ceasefire
Fall of Cambodia
Fall of Saigon

The story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam--beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975 when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out.


Translated from the Japanese.

9781612004723 (hardback) 1612004725 (hardback)

2017304390


Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Press coverage.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Journalists.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Campaigns.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975
Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975 --Cobertura de prensa
Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975 --Campaņas
Guerra de Vietnam, 1961-1975 --Relatos personales

438 DS 559.46 / H668o 2017

959.704/38