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This was one of Don McCullin’s great stories on Vietnam and one of the most dramatic displays of photojournalism, at which the Sunday Times Magazine excelled beyond any other publication before or since. It was published at the height of that genre. We had been sent out to Vietnam on...

A haunting place inhabited only by tribes of cats; it was abandoned in a day when the water supply was choked off. British soldiers were under siege here for some time in the 19th century. Outside were the fearsome, aggressive Danakil, the subject of Kipling's poem; Fuzzy Wuzzy; It was...