Once Upon a Distant War

David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles

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In Once Upon a Distant War Prochnau vividly brings to life the adventures of a small group of young, audacious, and driven war correspondents who first brought Vietnam to the American popular consciousness.  With the evocative eye of a novelist and the experience of a prize-winning journalist, Prochnau introduces us to men such as David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, and Neil Sheehan and through the immediacy of these portraits and the retelling of their adventures, Prochnau offers students a rare glimpse of America as it stumbled quite blindly into the quagmire of Southeast Asia.
William Prochnau, a former national correspondent for The Washington Post, wrote three acclaimed books including Once Upon a Distant War. He died in 2018. View titles by William Prochnau

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In Once Upon a Distant War Prochnau vividly brings to life the adventures of a small group of young, audacious, and driven war correspondents who first brought Vietnam to the American popular consciousness.  With the evocative eye of a novelist and the experience of a prize-winning journalist, Prochnau introduces us to men such as David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, and Neil Sheehan and through the immediacy of these portraits and the retelling of their adventures, Prochnau offers students a rare glimpse of America as it stumbled quite blindly into the quagmire of Southeast Asia.

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William Prochnau, a former national correspondent for The Washington Post, wrote three acclaimed books including Once Upon a Distant War. He died in 2018. View titles by William Prochnau