Vietnam war journalists’ hub: Caravelle Saigon

The Europa endured three decades of conflict but remains a special place for the journalists who were based there.

How international journalists found themselves in the centre of a bloody conflict they were determined to cover.

Street fighting, sieges and kidnappings were all part of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, witnessed by the iconic hotel.

A symbol of jet set prewar Beirut, the empty, shell-scarred building still towers above glitzy downtown.