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The Giant and the Pissant: A Fairy Tale

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

Review of Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Penguin Books, 1997.

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Viet Nam Then and Now: A Veteran Returns

Michael Burr - mbphotog [159]

Then: September 25, 1969. The long flight from California with refueling stops in Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines is now descending into Tan Son Nhut airport, Saigon, Republic of Viet Nam. I peer out...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Photography | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
Edward Lansdale:  The Unquiet American. By Cecil B. Currey.

Colonel Cassandra

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

Review of the biography of Edward Lansdale, model of The Ugly American and The Quiet American.

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Literature | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Film Review: Indochine

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Catherine Deneuve, in perhaps the defining role of her career, stars in Indochine, one of the best Asian epics ever made...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in Malaysia

Ee Lin Wan - eelin [4,107]

* * * * * "We have heard stories of similarly desperate boat people escaping out of the communist Vietnam. Out in the sea, our main fears were the pirates - who will not hesitate to rob, rape, beat...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Malaysia | Terengganu | Vietnam
Topics: People | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

In Retrospect In Retrospect

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

A review of In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara, who was secretary of defense during part of the Vietnam War.

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Hollywood's Vietnam

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Title: Hollywood's Vietnam. From The Green Berets to Full Metal Jacket . Author: Gilbert Adair Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (1989) ISBN: 0434045802 Details: paperback, 6" x 9", 227 pages. * * *...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Our Cassandra in Saigon

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." -from The Quiet American. Review of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American".

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Literature | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Coming into Sai Gon

Malcolm Arthur - cafengocmy [709]

July 2003 It was night as the 747 approached Tan Son Nhat airport in Sai Gon. I thought to look for the lights and surmised it would be like any other city seen from the air at night, pretty but...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Travel | People | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Pilgrimage 2003

Malcolm Arthur - cafengocmy [709]

As the KAL flight rose out of Incheon Airport the standard announcements were given, first in Korean by a strong authoritative female voice with a hint of menace in it, then in English by a strong...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Travel | People | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
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