Saigon Has Fallen, Peter Arnett
Saigon Has Fallen, Peter Arnett
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Saigon Has Fallen
A Wartime Recollection

Author: Peter Arnett

Narrator: Peter Arnett

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022

Synopsis

In this intimate and exclusive remembrance of the Fall of Saigon, celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. Arnett's clear-eyed 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 pivot-points of Vietnam: covering Marine landings, mountaintop battles, Saigon's decline and fall, and the safe evacuation of a planeload of fifty-seven infants in the midst of chaos. Peter Arnett's 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 TV-reporting fame covering the Gulf War for CNN.

About Peter Arnett

Peter Arnett started as an intern at his local newspaper at age 18, but knew even then his interest was in covering the world. Less than a decade later, he was traveling the globe for the Associated Press, the first of several major American news organizations he would work for. His Vietnam War coverage for the AP won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1966. Arnett joined CNN at its birth in the early 1980s, earning a television Emmy for his live television coverage of the first Gulf War from Baghdad in 1991. He is also the author of Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, published in 1994. Born in New Zealand in 1934, he later became an American citizen and now lives in Fountain Valley, CA.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on February 08, 2019

Peter Arnett is an award-winning journalist with extensive reporting experience during the Vietnam War. Consequently, his Saigon Has Fallen: A Wartime Recollection is well worth reading. It is a short book, yet is testimony to the failures of several U.S. presidents to understand that the war effort......more

Goodreads review by Jill on August 08, 2015

After visiting Vietnam and hearing about the "American War" from the Vietnamese perspective, my interest was piqued in learning more about this war that I had lived through but never really understood. We saw it on the news at dinnertime every night; I had a brother who served; the Fall of Saigon wa......more

Goodreads review by Piyush on January 12, 2016

There are two ways to know about the Vietnam War - one is through good ol' Wikipedia to get a quick bite-sized fix of trivia. The second is through the account of a feet on the ground, eyes on the prize kind of journalist. If you are tired with the first and want to sample the second - pick this boo......more

Goodreads review by Jon on June 13, 2015

Short and very to the point. Arnett was the typical war correspondent. He made his way to where the action was, one way of the other. Way more guts than almost all of us. Good read. He sure as hell was there. For all of it.......more

Goodreads review by Jackie Manley on February 02, 2020

Saigon Has Fallen This is a gripping, journalistic view of the Vietnam War as seen by Peter Annette. He gives a reporters view of the military and political hurdles faced by newsmen. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Vietnam War or journalism.......more

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