Denis Horgan was
sent to Southeast Asia in 1966 as a 24-year-old lieutenant in the United
States Army as part of the madly escalating war ravaging Vietnam and
the world around. Assigned to a small isolated signal site in the
northeast of Thailand, he found himself aide to the commanding general
of troops there. It was there his contact and perspective on the Vietnam
war sharpened.
It was a long season of war, of exotic adventures, of Asian aura, beauty
and mystery – and, especially, of newspapering such as cannot ever
happen again. Denis Horgan, as a very young man, found himself in the
middle of it all – as an Army officer with the Vietnam war, helping
search for a missing millionaire in the jungles of Malaysia, ultimately
as editor-in-chief of the Bangkok World.
His book, “The Bangkok World” – with the evocative and powerful
photography of William Harting – recalls an age that was so wondrously
unique, so special to its time as to be part of history yet, at the same
time extremely personal. Penetrating, reflective, funny, smart,
bemused, ‘The Bangkok World’ captures those elusive days with so much of
the spark and energy that created them.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing.
