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Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia.
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River of Tears - The Rise of the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd.
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Victory in Vietnam
("An Englishman's view of Vietnam, where victory belongs t...)
"An Englishman's view of Vietnam, where victory belongs to those who can survive and still laugh." War reporting from Vietnam by a British correspondent who spent as much time as he could in country. West writes about the Tet Offensive, the drug trade, the "myth of the Green Berets", Bob Hope's last show, the absurdities of media coverage and the people and history of Vietnam. Images by the Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008) who was the author of Vietnam Inc. 196 pages; 8 pages of b&w photographic plates, map; 5.25 x 8 inches.
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Richard West
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He is described by Damian Thompson as "one of the finest foreign correspondents of the 20th century", with a career that covered the span of the Cold War in most of its theatres. Starting off his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian, West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation", he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland"s secret police.
Among his books are The Making of the Prime Minister (with Anthony Howard), and Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (1995).
Along with Patrick Marnham and Auberon Waugh, West was one of three signatories to a letter to The Times that called for a British monument to honour those repatriated as a result of the Yalta Conference, it was eventually erected in 1986.
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Victory in Vietnam
("An Englishman's view of Vietnam, where victory belongs t...)
- Back to Africa: a history of Sierra Leone and Liberia.
- River of Tears - The Rise of the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd.
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Victory in Vietnam
