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John Sack

John Sack (March 24, 1930 – March 27, 2004) was an American literary journalist and war correspondent. He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century.

Biography

Sack was born in New York City. His work appeared in such periodicals as Harper's, The Atlantic, Esquire and The New Yorker. He was a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia.

A reporter, researcher and later a stringer for CBS News in Spain, he authored ten books, including the controversial title ', which described cases of persecution of Germans by Jews in post–World War II Polish internment camps.

Death

He died on March 27, 2004, three days after his 74th birthday, from prostate cancer in San Francisco, California, according to his New York Times obituary. He was survived by a sister, Lois Edelstein.

Publications

  • 1952: Yerupajá New York: Rinehart & Co. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 52-7159
  • 1959: Report from Practically Nowhere
  • 1968: M. New York: Avon Books. Reissued in 1986 by Corgi Children's.
  • 1971: Lieutenant Calley: his own story; [as told to] John Sack. New York: Viking Press.
  • 1971: Body count: Lieutenant Calley's story; as told to John Sack. London: Hutchinson, 1971.
  • 1982: Fingerprint. New York: Random House
  • 1993: '. New York, NY: BasicBooks (about Lola Potok Ackerfeld Blatt)
  • 1995: Company C: the real war in Iraq. New York: William Morrow;

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