Vietnam: The Real War

This collection of images from the Associated Press Saigon bureau is the ultimate photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American life. These are pictures that both recorded and made history. Author and journalist Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965, celebrates the achievement of these courageous photojournalists in a moving introductory essay. Read more