European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books review live from the Battlefield from Vietnam to Baghdad 35 years in the world s War zones by Peter Arnett Simon & schuster. This is Fame while Arnett was broadcasting from Baghdad Iraq for the Cable news network during the persian Gulf War delivering the news from the enemy capital that was heard and seen around the world he Learned from a Vatican reporter that the Pope wanted to meet him. And an Ankara reporter told him that women in Turkey were naming their children after him even the  and this is Fame of a different sort i tuned in to the bbl at Daybreak and heard White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater Call me a liar now in live from the Battlefield his powerhouse of a Book of War reportage Arnett provides the unspoken details behind his controversial Broad casts. His Book conveys what a commercial television report especially a censored or self censored one cannot the unvarnished discoveries and unrestrained emotions of a great reporter. The title ought to be read for a double meaning. His broadcasts from Baghdad were live almost in stantly transmitted via satellite to television screen Halfway around the world although an iraqi censor called a minder checked his words beforehand. There was never any concealment from the Public All his reports from the Al Rashid hotel were identified As having been cleared by the iraqis. The second meaning is even More remarkable after 35 years of combat reporting from Vietnam to Baghdad and beyond Arnett is still alive to Tell his Story. And what a singular Story it is. What emerges is a portrait of a charming and even modest individual who was determined to be where the action was and to bring out Only the truth of what he saw. After Vietnam trying to report the truth became a casualty of War in later . Military actions Gre Nada Panama the persian Gulf every Effort was made to keep the . Press away from the Battle Field. Inevitably Arnett s probing coverage got him into trouble with the authorities and certain other journalists from american generals in Vietnam to hawkish columnists to Kab strongmen in Moscow to presidents and presidential spokesmen. It s a close Call but Arnett does t consider him self a War Lover. Here s How he explain himself in the first sentence of his Book i have a Rule never to do anything dangerous for  the next thing we know it s now 1993, after he has finished writing this Book is that he s off and running in Afghanistan testing his Luck again by going through checkpoints manned by trigger Happy rebels. He writes i remembered a local official Tell ing me Don t Ever go out at night. After dark everyone in Afghanistan is a  in live from the Battlefield Arnett provides photographic and eyewitness evidence that seems to support his most controversial Story from Baghdad the one that earned him the tag liar the destruction of what the allies said was a biological weapons testing Center and the iraqis said and he reported was a Plant for processing milk for babies. As Arnett tells it so amusingly by the time he finished his persian Gulf War duty children were being named Peter. Herbert Mitgang the new York times awards Small printing houses and University presses published 10 of the 25 books nominated for the National Book critics Circle s most distinguished books of 1993  of the nominated books were published by the Small presses Coffee House and dalkey Archive five by University presses one by Ticknor & Fields which is being closed and another by Poseidon which has been closed. Herbert Leibowitz the National Book critics Cir Cle s president attributed the trend to the increased emphasis on commercialization and profits among big name  in five categories have been nominated. The group s 24-member Board of directors meets feb. 11 to choose one Winner in each of the cat ego Peter Arnott still alive after the wars. Ries the awards ceremony is March 10. The nominated books Are fiction the Jade Cabinet by Rikki Duc Ornet dalkey a chive press. A lesson before dying by Ernest j. Gains Al Fred a. Knopf. Feather crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason Harper  shipping news by e. Annie Proulx Charles Scribner s sons. Vindication by Frances Sherwood Farrar Straus Giroux. General non Letlon the land where the blues began by Alan Lomax pantheon. Whoredom in Kimmage Irish women coming of age by Rosemary Mahoney Houghton Mifflin. Lenin s Tomb the last Days of the soviet Empire by David Remnick random House. Genie an abused child s flight from silence by Russ Rymer Harper Collins. The last Panda by George b. Schaller University of Chicago press. Biography autobiography Genet by Edmund White Alfred a. Knopf. . Dubois biography of a race by David Levering Lewis Henry Holt. French lessons by Alice Kaplan University of Chicago press. A different person by James Merrill Alfred a. Knopf. The passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller Simon & schuster. Poetry my Alexandria by Mark Doty University of Illi Nois press. The museum of Clear ideas by Donald Hall tick nor & Fields the Book  Linda Hogan Coffee House press. The marvelous arithmetic of distance by Audre Lorde . Norton. Sesame by Jack Marshall Coffee House press. Criticism opera in America a cultural history by John Dizikes Yale University press. The Queen s Throat by Wayne Kestenbaum Poseidon. The phantom Empire by Geoffrey o Brien . Norton. The invention of copyright by Mark Rose har Vard University press. United states essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal random House. 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