John Sack


John Sack was an American literary journalist and war correspondent. He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century.

Biography

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 , which described cases of persecution of Germans by Jews in post–World War II Polish internment camps.

Death

He died on March 27, 2004, three days after his 74th birthday, from prostate cancer in San Francisco, California, according to his . He was survived by a sister, Lois Edelstein.

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