Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
Them written by veterans of the vietnam war. National book award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, classic works of nonfiction including probably a dozen or 15 or 20 war memoirs that stand with the best of the genre. As well as history analysis and so on. I just have a small list. Ive left off many but the ones that i thought of immediately that should be on anybodys book shelf who reads whos interested in the vietnam war as far as nonfiction Neil Sheehans book, a bright shining light. Philip caputo, david halverstans the best and the brightest, wallace terrys book blood, robert masons book chicken hawk, one of the first and best helicopter pilots memoirs. Lou puller, he was from virginia. That book won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography. You know, he was chesty pullers son, he graduated from college in 1967 and what did he do . Yeah. He went to the marines. Can you imagine . And theres a great probably the best memoir by a woman is linda van zanters home before morning. She was a nur
The question is, will we learn from them . Time. Okay. Thank you all for coming. Ill be over here signing books if you would like one. [applause] on behalf of the library, thank you again for coming. And thank you to all of you for coming and your great questions. For more information on events like this, visit the web site. Have a great night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] weed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Cspans newest book, sundays at eight. A collection of interviews with some of the nations top story tellers. In the beginning of the war when you were afraid of holding the gun. Then when we went to the first battle and we fought and i shot somebody, kill somebody, it does something to you that you start to its very difficult in the beginning but after time went on it became easy, became normalized, and actually in the context of war this is what happens. You normalize the situation so you can live through it because if you dont, you die