Shooting Wars: My Life As a War Cameraman, from Cuba to Iraq

by Erik Durschmied

Examines the life of the photographer who has, during his career, captured such events as the Vietnam War, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the Iran-Iraq War

330 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1990

About the author

is a cinematographer, producer, director and also an author, military history professor and a former war correspondent for BBC, CBS.

Reviews

[Thomas Wictor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great. Puts you right at the front line and explains why war photographers do what they do. Very straight-forward language, but each episode reads like a novel. The strangeness of being allowed to arrive, film death, and leave unmolested gives it all a choreographed quality. If there were no cameras, would wars be shorter and less violent? An interesting question to which we'll never know the answer.

[Adam Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

this bloke knows his stuff, and has writen one of the accou nts of a very brave man that i am yet to read,