Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Possibly the best typo I have ever seen! - -----Original Message----- From: Sal DiMarco,Jr. [mailto:sdmp007@pressroom.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:11 PM To: LUG >for posts; LEG; LRF Subject: [Leica] Shameless promotion for a friend's new boob To all who may be interested: The book, ``Lost Over Laos,'' by Richard Pyle and Horst Faas, will be published March 21 by Da Capo Press, a division o Perseus Books Group. ``Lost Over Laos,'' subtitled ``A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery and Friendship,'' tells the story of four of the Indochina War's best combat photographers, their deaths in a flaming helicopter shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos on February 10, 1971, and how the long-lost crash site was rediscovered and excavated 27 years later by an American MIA search team. Horst Faas and Richarad Pyle were present at the site in March 1998, and that experience is of course a key part of the book. In delving into the lives and careers of the four principals, Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of AP, Kent Potter of UPI and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek, we found they were people we knew _ and didn't know. While they weren't equally famous, all four were all top professionals, admired for their skill, compassion and courage, and they died doing what they did best. We hope the book does them justice. It is Vietnam through journalists eyes, framed in the midyears of the war that included such events as the invasions of Cambodia and Laos. While not a pure war story, it has its share of heroes. Among these are American helicopter pilots and crews who took part in the conflict's most dangerous flying, as well as members of the latter-day search teams whose mission is finding and recovering those lost in the war. In sum, it's a story of four outstanding combat photographers and a lot of other people for whom Vietnam became the indelible experience of a lifetime. We shared the research and reporting and gathered photographs from a variety of sources. Richard wrote the narrative, Horst chose and edited the final 48 pages of photos. ``Lost Over Laos'' is listed on the publisher's web site, (www.dacapopress.com> and on web sites of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others. Regards, Sal Sal DiMarco, Jr. Philadelphia, PA Web Site: http://members.fcc.net/sal.dimarcojr - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html