Do you have a favorite war correspondent book, /lit/? I've been reading this and this Venter guy has lived a very interesting life, very interesting book.
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I've been writing a war novel for awhile (don't ask), and many of the characters are correspondents. For research and versimilitude, I've read many books (and collected even more) that would fall into this category. Some of them are collections of various stories on the same conflict (Reporting Vietnam/Library of Congress), bios of journos (Peter Arnett/Live From The Battlefield), or frontline reportage (Ernie Pyle/Here is your war).A few that stand out are: Michael Herr/DispatchesYoung (26) Vietnam correspondent for Esquire magazine, contributed to classic war films Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket Rysard Kapuscinski/Another Day of LifeThe inane madness of war from a Polish journalist in the Angolan Civil War
>>25501518how good is this? I downloaded it the other day
>>25502652It's been on my radar but I've not got around to reading it yet, sorry.
>>25502645>Rysard KapuscinskiVenter says in Takka, Takka that Kapuscinski was a lying, commie spy piece of shit.
>>25502652It's pretty good
>>25502652>>25502672>>25503024It's very good. The sequel Another Bloody Love Letter is just as good, too.There are a few more in the same vein I want to read, too. Been wanting to read Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox (she's been in the CIA for decades and is married to a Kennedy); and this guy John Kiriakou has been making the rounds recently and there's a book of his I want to read.
>>25504217>The sequel Another Bloody Love Letter is just as good, too.Didn't know there was a sequel, got to check it out.
>>25504416Yeah it's excellent. Like I said it's just as good, which is saying a lot because My War Gone By is probably my favourite book.
>>25502645>Kapuscinski/thread
