G.A.R. Memorial Library (West Newbury)

Foreign correspondent, a memoir, H.D.S. Greenway

eng

autobiography

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Foreign correspondent

862788480

H.D.S. Greenway

a memoir

"David Greenway, a journalist's journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it's like to report a war up close"--, Provided by publisher

A different world -- Going to work for Uncle Sam and Henry Luce -- Assignments in London and Washington -- Coming into Vietnam -- Away to war, home in Hong Kong -- My luck runs out -- The South Vietnamese hold the line -- The Americans depart -- A curious coda -- The Fall of Saigon -- Returning to Saigon -- Covering Southeast Asia -- On the Opium Trail -- Laos : "The end of nowhere" -- Cambodia : between the tiger and to crocodile -- Indonesian New Guinea : stoning the Stone Age men -- Australian New Guinea : missionaries, cannibals, & cargo cults -- Muhammad Ali's holy war -- Bangladesh : birth of a nation -- The first Washington Post Bureau in Israel since 2000 years -- Sadat comes to Jerusalem -- Coming home -- Oman : a colony in all but name -- Bad days in Beirut -- The Soviet empire crumbles -- Balkan tragedy -- Saddam Hussein goes to war -- Baghdad nights -- To the Khyber Pass