Tell It to the Dead: Stories of a War (East Gate Books) [Hardcover]

Donald Kirk (Author, Photographer)

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From Library Journal

The war being remembered in this 1975 volume is Vietnam. This updated edition is interspersed with new chapters that reveal what is happening in Vietnam and Cambodia today and the bitterness over the conflict that still lingers.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc; 2nd edition (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563247178
• ISBN-13: 978-1563247170
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,551,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Donald Kirk, from Washington, D.C., travels to South Korea, with stops in London, the middle east, Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines, among other places, writing on the confrontation of forces in the post-9/​11 era.

From 1997 through 2003, Don was Seoul correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, also filing for The New York Times and CBS, covering nuclear and economic crises. In addition, he has written articles for such diverse magazines as Institutional Investor, Far Eastern Economic Review, The New Leader, Future Korea Journal, National Review, Kyoto Journal and Hemispheres and commentaries for newspapers ranging from The Wall Street Journal Asia and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong to the Los Angeles Times, Providence Journal, Washington Examiner and Newsday.

Don first visited Seoul in 1972 as Far East correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and has covered major events in Korea from the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979 and the Kwangju revolt in 1980 to every presidential election since adoption of the "democracy constitution" in 1987.

From 1988 to 1994, he focused on economics and labor, writing Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung, a critical study of Hyundai, Korea's largest chaebol, and its founder. Again in Seoul, he wrote Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era, published in 2000, and, most recently, Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine, a critical biography of the former South Korean president who passed away in August 2009.

He continues to write commentaries and file for CBS and The Christian Science Monitor. The University of Maryland University College in 2004 awarded him an honorary doctorate as "one of the United States' most knowledgeable observers and commentators on Asia."

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4.0 out of 5 stars An honest portrait of an army in retreat, November 4, 2000

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This review is from: Tell It to the Dead: Stories of a War (East Gate Books) (Hardcover)

A reporter who believed in getting his boots muddy, Donald Kirk visited various line units of the Americal Division and 101st Airborne during the withdrawal phase of the Vietnam War. His accounts of brave but unmotivated grunts ring true. Kirk also conducted extensive interviews with support troops at major bases like Chu Lai and Da Nang, where morale was even worse than in the field, and his accounts of the drug and racial problems that beset the US Army during the latter years of the war are also fair and accurate.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Graphic, November 8, 1999

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This review is from: Tell It to the Dead: Stories of a War (East Gate Books) (Paperback)

This book is a journal of Donald Kirk of the war in vietnam. He went to vietam in 1965. He writes this very graphically. In the book he talks about the different battlefields. He goes around to all the military bases and interviews soldiers and rights down notes own what they say and how they act. One time he went in to one of the bathroom stalls and wrote down some of the stuff the soldiers have written. He feels that the soldiers are already feeling guilt for what they have done. There are some good inciteful quotes from soldiers at war.