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Title: On the Frontlines of the Television War
Subtitle: A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam
Author: Terry Irving - editor, Yasutsune Hirashiki
Narrator: Tetsuro Shigemastsu, Eric Pollins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-18
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's 10 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 last flights out. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls as the best of battle memoirs but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice.
The great books about Vietnam journalism have been about print reporters, still photographers, and television correspondents, but if this was truly the first "television war", then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms. An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book been completely re-created for an international audience.
In 2008, the Japanese edition was published by Kodansha in two hardback volumes and titled I Wanted to Be Capa. It won the 2009 Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award - a prize usually reserved for much younger writers - and Kodansha almost doubled their initial print run to meet the demand. In that period, he was interviewed extensively, a documentary was filmed in which he returned to the people and places of his wartime experience, and a dramatization of his book was written and presented on NHK Radio. A Kodansha paperback was published in 2010 with an initial printing of 17,000 copies and continues to sell at a respectable pace.
Critic Reviews:
"Tony Hirashiki is an essential piece of the foundation on which ABC was built. From the day he approached the Bureau Chief in Saigon with a note pinned to his shirt saying he could shoot pictures to the anxious afternoon of 9/11 when we lost him in the collapse of the Twin Towers (and he emerged covered in dust clutching his precious beta tapes), Tony reported the news with his camera and in doing so, he brought the truth about the important events of our day to millions of Americans." (David Westin, Former President of ABC News)
Members Reviews:
I recommend it to anyone interested in the Vietnam War from ...
I could not put this book down. I recommend it to anyone interested in the Vietnam War from an eyewitness who covered it with his lens till the end.
I encourage journalism students to read this book.
Great insights from the Vietnam War
Yasutsune, aka Tony, Hirashiki provides great insights from the ground in Vietnam. I value Tony as a colleague at ABC News and a wonderful storyteller here!
Thank you
Thank you for writing this Tony-San (and Terry!)...it brought back so many memories of those years.
For everyone else, just read this memoir by one of the best cameramen (and person!) who ever was.
Great book!
Outstanding in every way. Gives an insight I was never aware of about the Vietnam War. An absolute MUST READ.
How the News Was Covered in Southeast Asia and What It Cost
So many years after leaving ABC News in 1990, On the Frontlines of the Television War comes as a revelation.
