Vietnam

From WWII to Vietnam, Reporting in the Trenches

Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam

By Ray E. Boomhower High Road Books, 2021

If the book (and 1943 movie) title rings a bell, odds are that you have heard of the journalist Richard Tregaskis, who wrote the book. In that bestseller, Tregaskis told the story of the World War II battle as called the book “one of the literary events of its time.”

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