The inspiring and fascinating true story of Catherine Leroy, one of the few women photographers covering the Vietnam War who gave a human face to the conflict, told by awardwinning journalist and childrens book author Mary Cronk Farrell.CloseUp on War tells the story of Frenchborn photographer Catherine Leroy, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in Vietnams 20year conflict. Although she had no formal photographic training and had never traveled more than a few hundred miles from Paris before, Leroy left home at age 21 to travel to Vietnam and document the faces of war. Despite being told that women didnt belong in a mans world, she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist to parachute into combat with American soldiers. Leroy took striking photos that gave America no choice but to look at the realities of warshowing what it did to people on both sidesfrom wounded soldiers to civilian casualties. Later, Leroy was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didnt keep her down for more than a month. When captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968, she talked herself free after photographing her captors, scoring a cover story in Life magazine. A recipient of the George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, Leroy was one of the most wellknown photographers in the world during her...

Binding: Hardback;320 pages; Publisher: Abrams; Classification: YNH; Weight: 866 g; Dimensions: 149 x 210 x 30

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