On the Frontlines of the Television War

“ The eyewitness accounts of the many phases of the war in this memoir bring events to life as if they had happened yesterday” ( Vietnam Veterans of America Book Reviews ). On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki’s ten years in Vietnam—beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera, but without a job or the slightest grasp of English, and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975, when he was literally thrown on one of the