Going to the wars
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Going to the wars
Macmillan, 2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Plates: between p. 112-113, and between p. 272-273
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time." Robert Harris
Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist, and a war correspondent instead. Before he was 30 he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falklands War.
Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found himself recording the doings of heroes when he understood that he did not have what it took to be a hero himself.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - i: Permissions Acknowledgements
Section - ii: List of Maps and Illustrations
Section - iii: Foreward
Chapter - 1: Tarnished Wings
Chapter - 2: Street Apprentice
Chapter - 3: A Taxi to Biafra
Chapter - 4: Shooting Vietnam
Chapter - 5: Ticket to Firebase Six
Chapter - 6: Yom Kippur
Chapter - 7: Israel's Victory
Chapter - 8: Bush War
Chapter - 9: Goodbye to Da Nang
Chapter - 10: The Fall of Saigon
Chapter - 11: Savimbi's Angola
Chapter - 12: Yoni
Chapter - 13: Voyage to the South Atlantic
Chapter - 14: On the Shore
Chapter - 15: Mount Kent
Chapter - 16: Walking to Stanley
Section - iv: Postscript
Index - v: Index
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