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THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD (2003)
Best non-fiction book on international affairs

JOHN LAURENCE
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"The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story”

The Vietnam conflict still casts its shadow over the nation. John Laurence, widely judged by his colleagues to be the best television correspondent of that era, explores those shadows in this expansive, richly anecdotal and troubling memoir of the years he spent in country. The shell-shattered ruins of Hué, the terror of a lieutenant colonel in an outpost under NVN fire, a ghostly conversation with the grunts who picked up the bodies - all these cinematic moments come alive through Laurence's rich prose. Along the way he details the true cost of war to Vietnam, America and the men and women who got the story.
 

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