He was the only journalist to cover each American war over half a century.
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 cases of persecution of Germans by Jews in post–World War II Polish internment camps.
[2][3] He died on March 27, 2004, three days after his 74th birthday, from prostate cancer in San Francisco, California, according to his New York Times obituary.