I did not realize until years after the event that it was the pivotal one, the one that turned me from the profession I thought I loved.
An edition of The Mark
(1995)
The mark
a war correspondent's memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
by Jacques Leslie
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At the height of the Vietnam War, Jacques Leslie was a fledgling war correspondent when a colleague told him about "the mark" - the craving for the intensity of war, the belief of many journalists that they are most alive in a war zone - and instantly Leslie knew he had it. In THE MARK, Leslie searches with uncompromising honesty for the source of his own attraction to war. THE MARK is at once a historical memoir, a coming-of-age-story, and an exploration of the workings of journalism.
THE MARK is a chronicle of a complex and fascinating time and place: Indochina in the 1970s, a flashpoint for what was supposed to be the showdown between Communism and democracy - and what turned into a vicious war between an arrogant and out-of-touch American command and its largely corrupt allies on the one side, and a dedicated and ruthless indigenous force on the other.
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The mark: a war correspondent's memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
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"I did not realize until years after the event that it was the pivotal one, the one that turned me from the profession I thought I loved."
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Maps on lining paper.
Includes index.
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