Neil Davis Warjournal

[sethzky77]

Sorry for the crappy digital footage, but the audio says it all.

[winifredatwell]

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth more than an age without a name." Neil Davis wrote this on the flyleaf of every journal he kept during his extraordinary life. I commend the excellent comment by another poster that all Australian students should be referred to the story of Neil Davis as part of their study of great Australian heroes. He was the only western correspondent to follow the ARVN, survived Cambodia and then was killed in a comic opera coup. Contact if you want Davis DVD/audio

[azulluz]

Blimey.

[TheJimbaHut]

Would be a great movie if any of our kinder philanthropics decided to dedicate some of thier high profile dollars into the arts on a subject I think we can all agree here is one more Aussies should know about. On another note, one of my good mate's boss worked with Davis in Bangkok... he pathfound those salubrious establishments you don't take your partners too.

[rubber4532]

that guy crawling away at the end died of his injuries

[TheSanityInspector]

@rubber4532 Yes, according to Wikipedia, it was a missionary named Bill Latch.

[onecrowdehour]

@TheSanityInspector  yes it was bill latch who was crawling, there is one video on latch a few days before he died, having a beer with his mates

[ResiduoIncombusto]

RIP

[greg313662]

An extraordinary Australian and a great humanitarian. Aussie kids should be reading 'One crowded hour' to learn of REAL bravery and sacrifice, not the bullshit bravado and swagger they seem to affect these days.

[spaceoreo]

The doc 'Frontline' by David Bradbury is one of the best I've ever seen. Davis was an amazing man.

[bentzenko]

do you know if it can be found anywhere online? i would really love to see it.

[spaceoreo]

No, I have not found it online. There might be a torrent somewhere. You can order it from the nla I think. I wrote once to David Bradbury and he very kindly replied. He was last working on something to do with the Maoist takeover in Nepal, but I see he's changed tack and made a surfing doc. His frontline website has a store I'm pretty sure.

[bentzenko]

cheers man ill keep searching, cool profile by the way :).. peace bro

[meraellinor]

One crowded hour, brilliant book.

[AngryOwl33]

Bloody LEGEND, reading his biography and his life story is amazing!

R.I.P

[Chubachus]

RIP, great brave man