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Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings

Autor Sydney Schanberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2010

În cadrul studiilor de istorie militară și jurnalism de investigație, Beyond the Killing Fields se constituie ca un document primar esențial pentru înțelegerea dinamicii conflictelor din Asia de Sud-Est. Această antologie de scrieri de război, semnată de Sydney Schanberg, oferă o perspectivă riguroasă asupra evoluției reportajului de front pe parcursul a peste patru decenii. Descoperim aici nu doar cronica genocidului cambodgian, ci și o analiză critică a intervențiilor militare americane, de la ofensivele din Vietnamul anului 1972 până la opacitatea administrativă ce a precedat conflictul din Irak.

Subliniem importanța includerii faimosului articol „The Death and Life of Dith Pran”, piesa centrală a volumului, care transcende jurnalismul informativ pentru a deveni o mărturie despre supraviețuire și etică profesională. Stilul lui Sydney Schanberg este precis, ancorat în dovezi documentare și lipsit de menajamente față de instituțiile puterii. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Last Helicopter: Two Lives in Indochina, însă în timp ce lucrarea lui Jim Laurie adoptă un ton de memoriu personal centrat pe o poveste de salvare, antologia de față păstrează o abordare analitică și critică, specifică jurnalismului de elită de la New York Times sau Village Voice.

Suntem de părere că relevanța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a face legătura între faptele brute din teren și implicațiile politice pe termen lung, oferind studenților la istorie și științe politice un model de integritate editorială. Ediția publicată de Potomac Books Inc reunește perspective disparate într-un corpus unitar, fiind indispensabilă pentru înțelegerea modului în care presa a modelat percepția publică asupra „celui mai ciudat război al Americii”.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781597975056
ISBN-10: 1597975052
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Potomac Books Inc
Colecția Potomac Books
Locul publicării:United States

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Despre autor

Sydney Schanberg este unul dintre cei mai respectați jurnaliști americani, distins cu Premiul Pulitzer în 1976 pentru reportajele sale internaționale. Cariera sa prodigioasă include poziții de editorialist la New York Times și Newsday, precum și critic media pentru Village Voice. A dobândit recunoaștere mondială prin documentarea căderii Cambodgiei în 1975, experiențele sale fiind ecranizate în filmul de succes „The Killing Fields”, premiat de Academia Americană de Film. Recunoscut pentru curajul de a rămâne în zone de risc extrem, Schanberg a continuat să fie o voce critică la adresa secretomaniei guvernamentale până la finalul carierei sale în New York.


Descriere scurtă

This first-ever anthology of the war reporting and commentary of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney Schanberg is drawn from more than four decades of reporting at home and abroad for the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, and various magazines. The centerpiece of the collection is his signature work, “The Death and Life of Dith Pran,” which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This became the foundation of Roland Joffé’s acclaimed film The Killing Fields (1984), which explored the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia during the late 1970s.

Although Schanberg may be best known for his work on Cambodia, he also reported on the India-Pakistan war that ended Pakistan’s brutal attempt to crush the Bangladesh freedom movement in the 1970s. His striking coverage of the Vietnam conflict recounts Hanoi’s fierce offensive in 1972 that almost succeeded. Years later, citing official documents and other hard evidence that a large number of American POWs were never returned by Hanoi, Schanberg criticized the national press for ignoring these facts and called for Washington to release documents that had been covered up since 1973. As the media critic for the Village Voice, Schanberg offered a unique and searing viewpoint on Iraq, which he called America’s “strangest war.” His criticism of the Bush administration’s secrecy brings his war reportage into the present and presents a vigorous critique of what he considers a devious and destructive presidency. Beyond the Killing Fields is an important work by one of America’s foremost journalists.

Recenzii

“There is a biblical quality to this story. What you have in this book is a tremendous, bone-chilling piece of eyewitness war correspondence. What makes it truly extraordinary, however—what makes it a transcendent and classic piece of war literature—is the story of the survival of Dith Pran and the deepening affection between two men from different worlds. Caught up in a war in which the vile and inhuman have become commonplace, two men are reborn by discovering the depths of their own humanity. In the end, they have won a personal victory over war itself.”—Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, humorist, chronicler of American life, former columnist for the New York Times, and former host of Masterpiece Theatre

“I recommend reading this remarkable book all at once, as I did. You’ll learn things. You’ll be fascinated and moved. It puts the reader where the reporter was and leaves you with an indelible picture of war as it is. The past—and the myriad, uncounted noncombatant victims of three wars—are brought back to life. Sydney Schanberg’s writing matches the intensity of the stories he has to tell and makes you feel the hurt. ‘This is what it’s like. Look,’ it says. ‘Don’t look away.’ It’s hard, necessary information.”—Sam Waterston, star of the long-running television drama Law & Order, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Schanberg in The Killing Fields

“Sydney Schanberg is one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century. His passion for Cambodia is outweighed only by his passion for the truth and for his dear friend and colleague Dith Pran. This book is a chilling historical document that lyrically captures some of the darkest periods in American—and human—history. It is both great journalism and great art."—David Rohde, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times

“A priceless collection of the war journalism of Syd Schanberg. Based in Southeast Asia, he was one of a tiny handful of reporters who remained behind to see the Khmer Rouge take over Phnom Penh and begin the Cambodian genocide. More recently, Schanberg's was among the few voices calling to account two U.S. senators, John McCain and John Kerry, both Vietnam veterans, for manipulating the findings of a special Senate committee to cover up the truth: that the Nixon White House, directed by President Nixon and his war planner, Henry Kissinger, left hundreds of living American POWs behind in the hands of their captors when we evacuated Vietnam. Schanberg's war writings offer lessons of great value in our conduct of today’s wars without end. They remind us at once of bygone standards of journalistic excellence and the depths to which humanity can descend in times of war.”—Joseph L. Galloway, coauthor of We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young and We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam