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Lost Horizons : A Legendary War Correspondent's Remarkable Life Amidst the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Foxholes of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Last Glimpses of a Vanishing Asia - Denis D. Gray

Lost Horizons

A Legendary War Correspondent's Remarkable Life Amidst the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Foxholes of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Last Glimpses of a Vanishing Asia

By: Denis D. Gray

Hardcover | 12 May 2026

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Living life on the edge-the memoir of a legendary AP war correspondent in the world's war zones.

This is the remarkable life story and moving reflections of Denis D. Gray, who was born Zdenek Mecir in communist Czechoslovakia and went on to a legendary career as a foreign correspondent for the Associate Press.

From the frontlines of the Vietnam War and the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia to foxholes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gray chronicles eight decades of relentless change and turmoil-as well as abiding resilience and timeless beauty-in this highly personal memoir. Through it all, Gray is caught between an impulse to find a refuge-a haven of perpetual peace, even a clearly unreachable "lost horizon" in a chaotic, madly spinning world-and the lure of living life on the edge as a war correspondent.

"In Lost Horizons, I try to make sense of it all as best I can. I tell my story and those of others-not only people but cities, countries and conflicts-through imperfect eyes. I chose not to present these accounts as a strictly chronological narrative but by subject and theme. In so doing, I hope to have captured the unique period in history during which I lived, loved and lost." -Denis D. Gray

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