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War Reporting Inspires Best-Seller:
In 1942, reporter Richard Tregaskis chronicled the brutal battle for the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. He turned his experiences there into one of the first American books about the war, the best-selling "Guadalcanal Diary," at left. The International News Service war correspondent used these binoculars, left, in Guadalcanal and while covering conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. |