Duncan, David Douglas:The World of Allah
- Taschenbuch 1986, ISBN: 9780395325049
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New York, N.Y.: Cooper Square Press, 1986. Paperback Edition, Presumed First Printing Thus. Trade paperback. Very good. ix, [1], 259, [5] pages. Includes black and white map of Vietnam… Mehr…
New York, N.Y.: Cooper Square Press, 1986. Paperback Edition, Presumed First Printing Thus. Trade paperback. Very good. ix, [1], 259, [5] pages. Includes black and white map of Vietnam in 1967 facing the title page. Also includes 25 black and white illustrations, as well as a Glossary. Chapters include Sunny Saigon; Learning the ropes; Getting to know the Viet Cong; Under fire; Managing the news; Playing the game; Big monkeys; Taking a breather; Australia: "Land of great interest"; Sitting ducks; Ambushed: Hill 875; Lunar surprise: Tet 1968; So long Saigon; and Dinh fights Hanoi. Hugh Duncan Lunn (born 1941 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian journalist and author. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters. Gradually, the futility of the American position in Vietnam began to emerge to the outside world, and Lunn tells us how that realization grew among his press colleagues. Reporters became suspicious of the U.S. military's official line as they toured "pacified" areas that were anything but. His year in Vietnam reached its climax with the Viet Cong attack on the American embassy in Saigon, and the Tet Offensive in January 1968. Lunn is an Australian who covered Vietnam for Reuters in 1967-68. He describes his experiences and his friendship with a Vietnamese man who worked with him. From February 1967 to March of 1968, Australian journalist Hugh Lunn reported on the war in Vietnam for Reuters. He joined several military missions into the combat zones, learning the terror of jungle warfare from the front lines. Lunn's record of his experiences reveals attitudes to the war from numerous sides-American soldiers, foreigners living in the capital, and Vietnamese, some intrigued by the American presence and some outraged. Throughout Vietnam, Lunn discovers telling signs of how wrongheaded American strategy was and how desperate American journalists were to show the war as progressive From the author's website: When you write a book about the Vietnam War the story never ends. Forty-five years after I was there, people still write to me about the War. People I've never met visit Saigon and send me photos of the Continental Hotel with my room marked with a cross, or ask if some building in a picture was the Reuter office. Foreign correspondents e-mail reminiscences or check details from the 1960s. Saigon 1967. I arrived age 25 in Vietnam to cover the war for Reuters. I was befriended by a local reporter, Dinh, who warned me "very quick and easy to be killed". Dinh knew things that I could not: Vietnam is always too short of fortune-tellers; my Melbourne roommate Bruce Pigott is "not long-live man"; and Heaven hurts fair women for sheer spite. Faced with the daily US military news briefings where fantasy is put out as fact, I found myself questioning a war that could not be won, and my role in it. My year of duty was almost up when the cataclysmic Tet Offensive changed everything. Four friends were killed. I finish the book with Dinh's final revelation that the most trusted and influential Vietnamese journalist in Saigon was, all along, a Viet Cong colonel., Cooper Square Press, 1986, 3, American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1968. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Original b/w pictorial stapled wrappers (slight rubbing and browning, chiefly to edges; previous owner's mailing label on upper wrapper). 34, [2] pages (including wrappers). Notable for portfolios by Horst Schafer and John Yang, plus the review of David Douglas Duncan's book 'I Protest!' by Barrett Gallagher, the report on the 12th Annual Miami Conference on Communication Arts by Regina Benedict, and the essay 'What Is A Published Photograph Worth?' by Roy Pinney. Additional publisher's blank subscription form (postcard) present. Stapled Paperback periodical.Over 25 b/w photographs; Advertising Matter., American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1968, 3, 188 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering to spine with blind stamped cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition, first state. First State, With The Improper Period Between Two Words On Line 11 On Page 112, Publishing Date "March 1942", And No Indication Of Printer's Name On Copyright Page. The Moon Is Down is a novel by American writer John Steinbeck. Fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, it was published by Viking Press in March 1942. The story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia (much like the occupation of Norway by the Germans during World War II).The title of the book comes from Macbeth. Just before Banquo encounters Macbeth on his way to kill Duncan, he asks his son, Fleance, "How goes the night, boy?" Fleance replies, "The moon is down; I have not heard the clock." (Act II, Scene i).Condition: Lightly soiled, heal corners rubbed through. Jacket price clipped, spine ends chipped, some closed edge tears, lightly soiled else very good in like jacket., Viking Press, 1942, 3, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. As New in As New dust jacket. 1982. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0395325048 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, photographic endpapers. Profusely illustrated with full-page, full-color photographs by David Douglas Duncan. Errata slip laid in. David Douglas Duncan - perhaps best known for his photographic work while with Life magazine, and for his books on Pablo Picasso, the treasures of the Kremlin, men at war, and American politics during the landmark 1968 Presidential conventions - spent many years of his professional and personal life photographing and living among Moslems. He has now taken over two years to assemble, edit, and produce this book, which he feels represents the best of all of his photographs (many never before published) made during innumerable journeys in the lands of Allah. Even though he carried cameras with him among some of the most remote tribes of central Asia and made painstaking color shots from atop the Rock inside the sacred Dome of the Rock Mosque in Old Jerusalem, no one ever raised a finger to threaten him. The results, as presented here, make The World of Allah the only photographic work of its kind.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Color Photographs. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 280, (1) pp ., Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982, 5<
