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Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X. Pham  
Publisher Comments Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
by Thuy Tram Dang Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked...
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Viet Nam: Borderless Histories (06 Edition)
by Tran Publisher Comments Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Viet...
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War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam: Scenes and Out-Takes
by Wayne Karlin Publisher Comments "Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate and powerful writers of his generation."-George Garrett Wayne Karlin's memoir War Moviesrecounts his return to Vietnam as scriptwriter and actor in the award-winning Vietnamese film Song of the Stork. On his...
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Over the Moat: Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam
by James Sullivan
Publisher Comments In the fall of 1992, James Sullivan travels to Vietnam to bicycle from Saigon to Hanoi. He has just finished graduate school and has an assignment to write a magazine story about a country that is still subject to a U.S. trade embargo. But in Hue, the...
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Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years: 1919-1941
by Sophie Quinn Judge Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-307) and index....
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Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare #27: Ghosts of War in Vietnam
by Heonik Kwon Publisher Comments This is a fascinating and truly groundbreaking study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar...
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Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
by David Lamb Publisher Comments Vietnam is run by one of the world's last communist governments, but great changes are sweeping the country. It is moving, if with caution and fear, toward a free-market economy. It is slowly lifting many of the civil restrictions that burden its 80...
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Child of War, Woman of Peace
by Le Ly Hayslip Publisher Comments The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam....
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From Centrally Planned to Market Economies: The Asian Approach: Lao PDR, Myanamar, & Viet Nam, Vol. III
by Pradumna B Rana Publisher Comments Disenchantment with the socialist economic model, coupled with the breakdown of the former Soviet economic bloc, has led to reforms in the transitional economies of Asia. This three-volume work is a study of economic reforms in the People's Republic of...
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Vietnam: A Natural History
by Eleanor Jane Sterling Publisher Comments A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and...
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Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963
by Seth Jacobs Synopsis For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance...
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Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited
by Craig Barber and Craig Nordstrom Publisher Comments After serving in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns twenty-eight years later to a country first seen in combat. Haunted by witnessed atrocities, Barber carries his memories of war back to Vietnam to quiet his ghosts. In the...
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The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
by Mark Atwoo Lawrence Publisher Comments How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? To understand the course of the Vietnam wars, it is essential to explore the connections...
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Good Morning Hanoi
by Iain Finlay Publisher Comments Returning once again to Viet Nam, where more than thirty years previously they had been correspondents during the Vietnam War, Iain Finlay and Trish Clark take up the job of coaching a team of young Vietnamese people at the Voice of Vietnam radio network...
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Papers in International Studies. Southeast Asia Series #66: The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
by Tu Binh Tran Synopsis Written by a veteran of the 1925--45 struggle in Vietnam, this is important reading for all those interested in the many-faceted history of modern Vietnam and of Communism in the non-Western world....
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Ho Chi Minh: From Revolutionary to Icon
by Pierre Brocheux Publisher Comments A fascinating biography of the Vietnamese icon Ho Chi Minh....
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Vietnam PB (Nations of the Modern World)
by William J Duiker Publisher Comments Vietnam’s Communist leaders, having gained control over the South in the spring of 1975, immediately attempted to establish socialism in the reunified country. But economic failure, foreign policy crises, and popular resistance to dogmatic programs...
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Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Pe)
by Mark Atwoo Lawrence Publisher Comments This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940s. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce...
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A World of Decent Dreams: Vietnam Images
by Ellen Kaplowitz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150)....
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