John Sack (March 24, 1930 – March 27, 2004) 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 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 reporter, researcher and later a stringer for CBS News in Spain, he authored ten books, including the controversial title An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which described alleged 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.

Publications

• 1952: The Butcher: The Ascent of Yerupajá New York: Rinehart & Co. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 52-7159

• 1959: Report from Practically Nowhere

• 1968: M. New York: Avon Books. Reissued in 1986 by Corgi Children's.

1971: Lieutenant Calley: his own story; [as told to] John Sack. New York: Viking Press.

• 1971: Body count: Lieutenant Calley's story; as told to John Sack. London: Hutchinson, 1971.

• 1982: Fingerprint. New York: Random House

• 1993: An Eye for an Eye. New York, NY: BasicBooks (about Lola Potok Ackerfeld Blatt)

• 1995: Company C: the real war in Iraq. New York: William Morrow;

References

External links

• "John Sack, 74, Correspondent Who Reported From Battlefields" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times, March 31, 2004

• Obituary in

• 1966 Esquire article "M", aka "Oh my God — we hit a little girl."