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On the Frontlines of the tv screen Conflict is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's a decade in Vietnam - beginning when he found its way to 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but with no employment or the slightest grasp of British and ending in the stressful fall season of Saigon in 1975 when he was practically thrown using one of the previous flights away. His memoir has all the exciting stories of peril, hardship, and close phone calls as the best of challenge memoirs but it is mostly a tale of very real and yet remarkable people: the troops 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 printing 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 composed the stories that the common American observed daily in their living spaces. An award-winning experience when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book been completely re-created for a global audience. In 2008, japan edition was published by Kodansha in two hardback quantities and titled I Wished to Be Capa. It gained this year's 2009 Oya Soichi Nonfiction Prize - a reward usually reserved for much more youthful authors - and Kodansha almost doubled their first print run to meet the demand. In that period, he was interviewed extensively, a documentary was filmed where he came back to the people and places of his wartime experience, and a dramatization of his publication was written and presented on NHK Radio. A Kodansha paperback was published in 2010 2010 with a short printing of 17,000 copies and proceeds to market at a good pace.
