Close-Up on War

Close-Up on War
Author: Mary Cronk Farrell
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1683359682

The incredible story of Catherine Leroy, one of the few woman photographers during the Vietnam War, told by an award-winning journalist and children’s author From award-winning journalist and children’s book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and fascinating story of the woman who gave a human face to the Vietnam War. Close-Up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the war’s few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. Although she had no formal photographic training and had never traveled more than a few hundred miles from Paris before, Leroy left home at age 21 to travel to Vietnam and document the faces of war. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a “man’s world,” she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers’ slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist to parachute into combat with American soldiers. Leroy took striking photos that gave America no choice but to look at the realities of war—showing what it did to people on both sides—from wounded soldiers to civilian casualties. Later, Leroy was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didn’t keep her down more than a month. When captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968, she talked herself free after photographing her captors, scoring a cover story in Life magazine. A recipient of the George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, Leroy was one of the most well-known photographers in the world during her time, and her legacy of bravery and compassion endures today. Farrell interviewed people who knew Leroy, as well as military personnel and other journalists who covered the war. In addition to a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Peter Arnot, the book includes a preface, author’s note, endnotes, bibliography, timeline, and index.

First Clash

First Clash
Author: Kenneth Macksey
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1988
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780425107560

Describes a hypothetical battle between Soviet and NATO forces in West Germany and discusses the weapons and strategies used

You Don’t Belong Here

You Don’t Belong Here
Author: Elizabeth Becker
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1743821662

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations. In You Don’t Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, the expansion into Cambodia, and the American defeat and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice. Deeply reported and filled with personal letters, interviews, and profound insight, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war. ‘A riveting read with much to say about the nature of war and the different ways men and women correspondents cover it. Frank, fast-paced, often enraging, You Don’t Belong Here speaks to the distance travelled and the journey still ahead.’ —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent ‘Riveting, powerful and transformative, Elizabeth Becker’s You Don’t Belong Here tells the stories of three astonishing women. This is a timely and brilliant work from one of our most extraordinary war correspondents.’ —Madeleine Thien, Booker Prize finalist and author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Requiem

Requiem
Author: Horst Faas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

Between the French Indochina war of the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penn and Saigon in 1975, 134 photographers from different nations were killed. Horst Faas, two-times Pullitzer Prize winner and Chief Photographer for The Associated Press in Saigon at the height of the war, and Tim Page, another veteran who had been badly wounded, have gathered many thousands of photos from the Western agencies and from archives in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. These have now been assembled to form both a monument to the dead and a record of the most terrifying war photography ever taken. Never again will the media have the kind of access to the war zone that was offered to the photographers in Vietnam. In many cases the photographers tried to get as close as possible, then paid the price.

God Cried

God Cried
Author: Tony Clifton
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN:

Recounts the 1982 siege of Beirut by the Israeli Army and describes the pain suffering caused by the fighting.

War Without Fronts

War Without Fronts
Author: Bernd Greiner
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2010-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409078922

Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai. By noon more than 400 women, children and old men had been systematically murdered. To this day, the My Lai massacre has remained the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War. Yet this infamous incident was not an exception or aberration. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to US Army archives, and tracing the responsibility for these atrocities all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon, War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam and how a war to win hearts and minds soon became a war against civilians.

War

War
Author: Sebastian Junger
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0007352263

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.

World War I Close Up

World War I Close Up
Author: Adam Powley
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499461658

World War I was one of the greatest tragedies in history. While other wars resulted in greater casualties or lasted for longer periods of time, the all-encompassing and unprecedented destructive nature of the Great War makes it a conflict in the chronicles of war that still resonates to this day. This text explains to readers the buildup to, the major events of, and the legacy of “the war to end all wars” through a thrilling narrative, a wealth of primary-source quotations, and intense black-and-white photographs.

World War II Close Up

World War II Close Up
Author: Morgan Servin
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499461674

This encyclopedic account of the Second World War is an exhaustive resource for school reports and war buffs alike. Through daily entries that chart the rise, peak years, and ultimate close to the war, this volume provides readers with a comprehensive examination of World War II, the war that affected Europe for decades after and made the United States into a world power. Rich prose capsules and vivid historical photographs bring to life the famous battles, key figures, and important treaties that made up the greatest worldwide conflict in modern history.

The Civil War Close Up

The Civil War Close Up
Author: Rob Morris
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499461615

The American Civil War was fought for idealistic American goals such as freedom, states’ rights, and unity. Such ideals notwithstanding, the four-year war (1861–1865) all too often descended into outright butchery, leading to more than 620,000 deaths. Accompanied by battlefield photographs and other primary sources, this chronicle covers all aspects of the war, including the technology and battle plans of both the Union and Confederate armies. As a counterpoint to the usual history of the victors, the final chapter gives a Southern perspective on the war’s causes and legacy.