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5.0 out of 5 stars
Newsreel Cameraman: 1960-1995,
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This review is from: Shooting Wars: My Life As a War Cameraman, from Cuba to Iraq (Hardcover)
What an EXCELLENT read! If Amazon offered a 10-star rating system, I'd give it all 10! I read two-thirds of the book before I could put it down, then I finished it the following morning. The author was a photo-journalist who took his newsreel-camera into war-torn areas of Rhodesia, Sudan, Iraq-Iran war (1990s), Lebanon, Israel, Vietnam, Saigon, Iran, Cambodia, Cuba, Taiwan, Gulf War I, and had interviews with German Col Otto Skorzeny, Cuba's Fidel Castro (just before he seized power), Iran's Imam Khomeini, and many others. He has many harrowing tales to tell, and he tells them well: you can almost feel the sizzling heat of Yemen and the buzzing of bullets just barely missing him in several different locations. (I don't now how this book differs from his similar-sounding "Don't Shoot the Yanqui" book.) Just his chapter detailing his escape as a young teenager from Nazi-Austria at the end of WWII is worth the price of this book alone! RUN to a bookstore to get this AWESOME fast-pace, ADVENTURE-thrilled packed book!
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Shooting Wars: My Life As a War Cameraman, from Cuba to Iraq by Erik Durschmied (Hardcover - Sept. 1991)
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