{"product_id":"foreign-correspondent-a-memoir-9781476761367","title":"Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eDavid Greenway, a journalist's journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it's like to report a war up close.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReporter David Greenway was at the White House the day Kennedy was assassinated. He was in the jungles of Vietnam in that war's most dangerous days, and left Saigon by helicopter from the American embassy as the city was falling. He was with Sean Flynn when Flynn decided to get an entire New Guinea village high on hash, and with him hours before he disappeared in Cambodia. He escorted John le Carre around South East Asia as he researched The Honourable Schoolboy. He was wounded in Vietnam and awarded a Bronze Star for rescuing a Marine. He was with Sidney Schanberg and Dith Pran in Phnom Penh before the city descended into the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. Greenway covered Sadat in Jerusalem, civil war and bombing in Lebanon, ethnic cleansing and genocide the Balkans, the Gulf Wars (both), and reported from Afghanistan and Iraq as they collapsed into civil war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a great adventure story--the life of a war correspondent on the front lines for five decades, eye-witness to come of the most violent and heroic scenes in recent history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreenway, H. D. S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - H.D.S. Greenway has reported from 96 countries, and covered conflicts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the former Yugoslavia. He has been a contributing columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe International Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been a foreign correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He lives with his wife, JB Greenway, in Needham, Massachusetts.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415678128402,"sku":"9781476761367","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3571d405-3fb2-4003-99c8-f6f08382a0df.jpg?v=1729409199","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/foreign-correspondent-a-memoir-9781476761367","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}