Bringing the War Back Home ; INSIDE STORY ++ Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Horst Faas's Unflinching Coverage of Vietnam Shows That the Camera Can Be Mightier Than the Cannon. Interview by Sophie Morris

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Horst Faas, born in Berlin in 1933, remembers the heavy shelling of his home city during the Second World War and the use of napalm on civilians. 30 years later he found himself in Vietnam witnessing more napalm attacks, as he documented the emerging conflict for the Associated Press photo agency. Faas became AP's chief photographer for South East Asia and was based in Saigon from 1962 to 1974, winning a Pulitzer in 1965 for his shocking and honest portrayals of civilian suffering in Vietnam. He won a second Pulitzer for images from Bangladesh in 1972. He also became known as a decisive and provocative picture editor and was brave enough to publish the two most enduring images …