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Close-Up on War audiobook
- By: Mary Cronk Farrell
- Narrator: Kate Rudd
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Women, Young Adult Nonfiction
- Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Close-Up on War Audiobook Summary
The incredible story of Catherine Leroy, one of the few woman photographers during the Vietnam War, told by an award-winning journalist and children’s author
From award-winning journalist and children’s book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and fascinating story of the woman who gave a human face to the Vietnam War. Close-up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the war’s few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Although she had no formal photographic training and had never before traveled more than a few hundred miles from Paris, Leroy left home at age twenty-one to travel to Vietnam and document the faces of war.
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. Leroy took striking photos that gave America no choice but to look at the realities of war–showing what it did to people on both sides–from wounded soldiers to civilian casualties.
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, and her legacy of bravery and compassion endures today.
Farrell interviewed people who knew Leroy, as well as military personnel and other journalists who covered the war. In addition to a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnot, the book includes a preface, author’s note, endnotes, bibliography, timeline, and index.
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Close-Up on War Audiobook Narrator
Kate Rudd is the narrator of Close-Up on War audiobook that was written by Mary Cronk Farrell
Kate Rudd, actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared in several independent films and shorts, as well as in multiple episodes of the television show Perks. As an audiobook narrator she has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration.
About the Author(s) of Close-Up on War
Mary Cronk Farrell is the author of Close-Up on War
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Close-Up on War Full Details
| Narrator | Kate Rudd |
| Length | 3 hours 43 minutes |
| Author | Mary Cronk Farrell |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798200994380 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Close-Up on War is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women, Young Adult Nonfiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Close-Up on War is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200994380.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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