"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.
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." -- Book jacket
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