M - Softcover

Sack, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595313426 ISBN 13: 9780595313426

Publisher: iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Lift your head and hold it high! Mighty Mike is passing by! So sang the 250 diverse soldiers of M Company ("Mighty Mike") as they went marching to Vietnam. Their right feet hitting the snow simultaneously, they sang, "Am I right or wrong?" They had their answer three weeks later."Great reportage," The New York Times. "Great literature," The Dallas Morning News."A superb book," The Nation."One must go back to Orwell for appropriate comparisons," The Washington Post."Sack achieves the quality of William March's Company K in World War I, of James Jones' From Here to Eternity in World War II," The Los Angeles Times."Absolutely the best book to come out of Vietnam," The Cleveland Press.M has been nominated by the NYU Department of Journalism as one of the top journalistic works of the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

John Sack is a founder of literary journalism, the one new literary form of the twentieth century. He was a newspaper reporter in North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, a contributor to Harper?s, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, a contributing editor of Esquire, a writer, producer, and special correspondent for CBS News, a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, and the author of ten nonfiction books.

Review:

"Great literature." -- The Dallas Morning News.

"Great reportage." -- The New York Times.

"Sack achieves for the Vietnam experience the quality of William Marchs Company K in World War I, of James Jones From Here to Eternity in World War II." -- The Los Angeles Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0595313426
• ISBN 13: 9780595313426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198