SOMERSET — Don McCullin, who is 91 years old, is releasing a new photography book titled Vietnam through Gost Books in October. The book will contain 100 photographs and war artifacts, including a helmet marked Times England and a compass.

He spent 12 days with U.S. Marines during the 1968 Battle of Hue, making 16 trips to Vietnam over his career. He stated that the events still affect him. "They bother me at night when I go to bed. They come uninvited back to me and then I start saying: 'Could I have done better? Could I have done this or done that?' I saw an awful lot of American soldiers getting killed very close to me." McCullin said.

"Because of all the wars that have been raging in the last 20, 30 or 40 years, there was no war like Vietnam. Sadly, 58,000 American soldiers died and 300,000 were wounded. It was an extraordinary American misadventure." He stated.

He began his photography career at age 23 after a photograph of a gang in Finsbury Park appeared in a British newspaper. His work has been featured in a retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain, and he has toured his photography internationally. He has also published books on other subjects, including ancient Rome.

Harold Evans, a newspaper editor for him, commented, "Don McCullin combined a cold eye informed by the warmth of his empathy." He covered conflicts in Congo and Cyprus before working in Vietnam, and was present during the construction of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of the iron curtain in Europe. He retired from war photography at age 75 after a trip to Aleppo, Syria, citing reduced mobility, and now works from Somerset, U.K.