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Author: Charles Jones
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2010-12-18
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0811744434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStory of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops.
Author: Ian Grant
Publisher: P. Stephens
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yasutsune Hirashiki
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2017-03-19
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1612004733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The eyewitness accounts of the many phases of the war in this memoir bring events to life as if they had happened yesterday” (Vietnam Veterans of America Book Reviews). On the Frontlines of the Television War is 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. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls of the best battle memoirs, but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice. If this was truly the first “television war,” then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms. An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book has been completely recreated for an international audience. “Tony Hirashiki is an essential piece of the foundation on which ABC was built . . . Tony reported the news with his camera and in doing so, he brought the truth about the important events of our day to millions of Americans.” —David Westin, former President of ABC News
Author: Neil McDonald
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of notable Australian war photographer tells of his experiences in the Middle East, Greece, New Guinea, Guam and Peleliu. Also provides portraits of contemporaries such as Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Chester Wilmot. Includes new material from private sources and Australian archives and some previously unpublished photographs. Indexed.
Author: Thayer Soule
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0813157307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThayer Soule couldn't believe his orders. As a junior officer with no military training or indoctrination and less than ten weeks of active duty behind him, he had been assigned to be photographic officer for the First Marine Division. The Corps had never had a photographic division before, much less a field photographic unit. But Soule accepted the challenge, created the unit from scratch, established policies for photography, and led his men into combat. Soule and his unit produced films and photos of training, combat action pictures, and later, terrain studies and photographs for intelligence purposes. Though he had never heard of a photo-litho set, he was in charge of using it for map production, which would prove vital to the division. Shooting the Pacific War is based on Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates -everyone he met and worked with along the way. Though he witnessed the horror of war firsthand, he also writes of the vitality and intense comradeship that he and his fellow Marines experienced. Soule recounts the heat of battle as well as the intense training before and rebuilding after each campaign. He saw New Zealand in the desperate days of 1942. His division was rebuilt in Australia following Guadalcanal. After a stint back in Quantico training more combat photographers, he went to Guam and then to the crucible of Iwo Jima. At war's end he was serving as Photographic Officer, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, at Pearl Harbor.
Author: Mark Harris
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0698151577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America’s war, shaping the public’s collective consciousness of what we’ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back. “Five Came Back . . . is one of the great works of film history of the decade.” --Slate “A tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable work of movie-minded cultural criticism. Like the best World War II films, it highlights marquee names in a familiar plot to explore some serious issues: the human cost of military service, the hypnotic power of cinema and the tension between artistic integrity and the exigencies of war.” --The New York Times
Author: Gary Ramage
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1460706048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops go - but with a camera, not a gun. As Australia's premier war photographer - and as a former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every conflict zone that Australia has ever been involved in. He's been embedded with troops, lived, eaten and slept alongside them. Through good times and bad times, through rocket attacks, firefights and funerals, from photographing mass graves in Kosovo to being in East Timor when SAS troops were ambushed, from sleeping under the stars on patrol with Aussie soldiers in Afghanistan to helping out with CPR on a wounded soldier on a medivac chopper, he's been there and documented it. It takes special grit to be a war photographer - it's an extreme and dangerous job. At least 25 journalists / photojournalists have been killed in Afghanistan alone since 2001. Journalists, cameramen, photographers - they've all been captured, tortured and executed. Risk comes with the territory. This is a high adrenalin, sometimes moving, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, entirely gripping story of a man who's living an extraordinary life, documenting some of the most confronting and moving moments in international conflicts and our recent history. Here is the story behind the pictures.
Author: Anthony Feinstein
Publisher: Glitterati Editions
Published: 2018-11-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781943876570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo book exists that has explored how working in the world's most dangerous places can affect the physical and psychological well-being of conflict photographers. Shooting War is a collection of essays and photographs that includes the results of the author's interviews with the world's preeminent wartime photographers, including: Don McCullin, Ron Haviv, Tim Page, Chim Seymour, Alexandra Boulat and Sebastian Salgado. While the text lays bare the traumas endured, the images speak to the resilience and creativity of the photographer in shaping our understanding of war and conflict.
Author: William L. O'Neill
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780674197374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were overcome by the citizens waging the war.
Author: Ron Steinman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780826214195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteinman describes his experiences as head of the NBC news bureau in Saigon from 1966 to 1968, and he writes of how the war changed the news coverage of battle to a home audience.
