Close up on war / Mary Cronk Farrell.
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TextPublication details: New York : Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, 2022Description: xv, 304 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 cmISBN: 9781419746611Subject(s): Leroy, Catherine | Photojournalists -- France -- Biography | War photographers -- France -- Biography | Women war correspondents -- France -- Biography | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies.DDC classification: 770.9597 | B LOC classification: TR140.L467 | F37 2022Other classification: YAN006140 | YAN042000 Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's 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. Later, Leroy was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didn't keep her down 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 well-known photographers in the world during her time"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.
School Library Journal starred, June 2022
Booklist starred, February 2022
Pub Weekly, June 2022
Kirkus Starred, December 2021
Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2021
". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's 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. Later, Leroy was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didn't keep her down 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 well-known photographers in the world during her time"--Provided by publisher.
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