Eye-witness in Vietnam

Eye-witness in Vietnam.
Wilfred Burchett.
London: Daily Worker, 1965.
Wilfred Burchett.
London: Daily Worker, 1965.
Wilfred Burchett was an Australian journalist famed for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and for his Communist beliefs. Burchett was the first foreign correspondent to enter Hiroshima in 1945 after its destruction by an atomic bomb. He reported extensively on the Vietnam War, travelling long distances and often huddling in Viet Cong tunnels while these were under attack. In addition to this pamphlet, Burchett was the author of several books about the war. Vietnam celebrated Burchett’s centenary in 2011 with an exhibition in the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi.