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New York: Harper, 1955. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, scuffing, damp stains, and small tears. Endpapers discolored.. Hershfield, Leo. 214 p. illus. 21 cm. A portion of Chaper 7 appears originally in The New Yorker in somewhat different form. This work presents "the zany adventures of a young man away from home, whose life was complicated and even enriched by his status as an American soldier " [from dust jacket] From Wikipedia: "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. [He was a Harvard graduate and had worked for United Press. ] Sack was born to a Jewish family 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 correspondent and later a bureau chief for CBS News in Spain, he authored ten books, including the controversial title, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. The book caused an uproar because Sack reported that, at the end of World War II, a number of Jewish Holocaust survivors, ran some Polish-Communist concentration camps and prisons, where they allegedly tortured and killed German and Polish civilians, including women and children. 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." From Wikipedia: "Leo Hershfield (1904 1979) was a prominent American illustrator and a courtroom artist for NBC News. NBC referred to him as the "Dean of Courtroom Artists" since he was the first modern artist to sketch for TV news in 1950's and covered 147 trials for NBC until when he died in the late 1970's. Hershfield was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the child of immigrants Isadore Abraham Hershfield and Ida Alshanetsky from Kiev, Ukraine. After growing up in Chattanooga, TN, he moved to New York in the 1920s, where he studied at the National Academy of Design and joined the Art Students League. He supported himself as an employee in the "morgue", or clippings library of the New York World. In 1923, he worked his way to Europe twice on a freighter to expand his drawing and watercolor style. In the 1930s, he worked simultaneously on the staff of the Chattanooga Times and later began writing articles and drawing for the political and theater pages of The New York Times. In 1940, he worked for the controversial PM then moved to Alexandria, VA to join the Office of War Information with his new wife, former model and Roxyette Mary Emma Hurst of New Bern, North Carolina. When the war ended he became a freelancer, illustrating for publications such as Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post and Kiplinger's Changing Times. During the 1950s and early 1960s he also created vivid political cartoons as cover art for the Democratic Digest, the publication of the Democratic National Committee. Hershfield illustrated the covers and interiors of more than 55 books, including those by Richard Armour, Vincent Price, H. Allen Smith and Groucho Marx. Hershfield worked in many media including pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, block printing, wood carving, metal sculpture and photography. He designed and built children's toys as well wrote and illustrated a children's book. In 1954, Hershfield's sketches accompanied NBC News' coverage of the Army-McCarthy Censure Hearings. Thereafter, he drew the proceedings for NBC at major trials around the country, including the Chicago Seven, the Harrisburg Seven, Jack Ruby, James Earl Ray, Clay Shaw, Arthur Bremer, Benjamin Spock, the Gainesville Eight, Billie Sol Estes and most famously the court martial of Lt. William Calley convicted in the My Lai Massacre trial. For 25 years, Hershfield's trial watercolors were presented by news reporters like John Cameron Swayze, David Brinkley and John Chancellor. The age of courtroom art in the U.S. came to a close in the late 1970s, when the Florida.