cover image Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles

Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles

William Prochnau. Vintage Books USA, $19 (564pp) ISBN 978-0-679-77265-1

Journalist Prochnau tells of the young and skeptical correspondents who helped focus attention on Vietnam during the early years of America's military involvement there. (Sept.)