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    One Crowded Hour

    By Tim Bowden

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    One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. 

    First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early 1960s, Neil Davis brought enduring images of the horror of modern war directly from the battlefront to the world's television screens. Davis's former colleague, Tim Bowden, tells the life story of this cool and utterly dedicated professional. Davis was a legendary gambler who often relied on his intuitive sixth sense to stay alive. He is best remembered for his eleven year coverage of the conflict in Indo-China, and was the only western cameraman to film with the South Vietnamese army. Having survived so much war, Davis was killed filming an attempted coup in the streets of Bangkok in 1985. He is remembered as an exceptional man and remarkable journalist, equally at home with presidents and street beggars.

    A sympathetic portrait of a gentle but dedicated and daring war correspondent.' - Melbourne Herald

    A must among Australian biographies.' - Weekend Australian

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781460702147
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    One Crowded Hour
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    Tim Bowden

    Tim Bowden is a writer and broadcaster, spending much of his career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he hosted the TV listener and viewer reaction program Backchat, from 1986-93. He shares Neil Davis's Tasmanian origins and was an ABC correspondent based in Singapore from 1965 to 1967. His radio and TV broadcasts included series on the Australian colonial experience in Papua New Guinea, Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War II, and the official history of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions). He is the author of fifteen books, most recently The Changi Camera.

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