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In this intimate and exclusive remembrance of the Fall of Saigon celebrated Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Peter Arnett tells the story of his role covering the controversial Vietnam War for the Associated Press from 1962 to its end on April 30 1975 Arnetts cleareyed coverage displeased President Lyndon Johnson and officials on all sides of the conflict Writing candidly and vividly about his risks and triumphs Arnett also shares his fears and fights in reporting against the backdrop of war
Arnett places listeners at the historic pivotpoints of Vietnam covering Marine landings mountaintop battles Saigons decline and fall and the safe evacuation of a planeload of fiftyseven infants in the midst of chaos Peter Arnetts sweeping view and his frank descriptive and dramatic writing brings the Vietnam War to life in a uniquely insightful way for the fortieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon
Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage He later went on to TVreporting fame covering the Gulf War for CNN
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