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On the frontlines of the television war : a legendary war cameraman in Vietnam / Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki ; foreword by Ted Koppel ; edited by Terry Irving.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: Philadelphia : Casemate Publishers, 2017Description: 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plate : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781612004723 (hardback)
  • 1612004725 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Kyapa ni narenakatta kameraman. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.704/38
LOC classification:
  • 438 DS 559.46 H668o 2017
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 438 DS 559.46 H668o 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000170088

"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.

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