First edition of New Zealand-born Australian journalist and war correspondent Kate Webb’s chronicle of her imprisonment, along with five male colleagues, by the Viet Cong in April, 1971. Webb was working as UPI bureau chief in Phnom Penh, Cambodia when she and her colleagues were captured in Cambodia by Viet Cong/North Vietnamese forces. Released unharmed after 23 days, Webb penned her memoir, providing a first-person account of the ordeal along with reflections about the broader chaos of the war. A hard-drinking, chain-smoking firebrand, Webb commented on being one of the few female journalists in the Vietnam theater, “If you don’t demand special privileges and don’t ask where you plug in your hair dryer, you have no problems.” A movie based on the book, starring and produced by Carey Mulligan, has been in the works since 2017. 8vo (5.75” x 8.25”), hardcover with photographic dust jacket, 160 pages plus a section of b/w photos. with a preface by New York Times foreign news correspondent Jerry Gold. Light rubbing to boards. Light creasing and soiling to half-title page; textblock otherwise pristine. Light rubbing and chipping to dj, with creasing and scratching to top edge of rear cover.
First edition of New Zealand-born Australian journalist and war correspondent Kate Webb’s chronicle of her imprisonment, along with five male colleagues, by the Viet Cong in April, 1971. Webb was working as UPI bureau chief in Phnom Penh, Cambodia when she and her colleagues were captured in Cambodia by Viet Cong/North Vietnamese forces. Released unharmed after 23 days, Webb penned her memoir, providing a first-person account of the ordeal along with reflections about the broader chaos of the war. A hard-drinking, chain-smoking firebrand, Webb commented on being one of the few female journalists in the Vietnam theater, “If you don’t demand special privileges and don’t ask where you plug in your hair dryer, you have no problems.” A movie based on the book, starring and produced by Carey Mulligan, has been in the works since 2017. 8vo (5.75” x 8.25”), hardcover with photographic dust jacket, 160 pages plus a section of b/w photos. with a preface by New York Times foreign news correspondent Jerry Gold. Light rubbing to boards. Light creasing and soiling to half-title page; textblock otherwise pristine. Light rubbing and chipping to dj, with creasing and scratching to top edge of rear cover.
