About the Author

Richard Tregaskis was a writer and reporter. He received the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Award in 1964 for first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances. He died in 1973.

Moana Tregaskis was a longtime journalist for The New York Times.

Reviews

"A superb example of war reporting at its best."
--From the Introduction by Mark Bowden



"The book's secret is the simple secret of all good reporting--fidelity and detail."    --Time