Stories about 20th Century History in Ho Chi Minh City
James Sullivan Perches High above Ho Chi Minh CityTo Vietnam With Love - tovietnamwithlove [610] On my first night in the Caravelle Hotel, I parted the curtains draping my room’s windows, and eighteen floors up, gazed out over Lam Son Square, the cinematic heart of Ho Chi Minh City. Looking up...
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Vietnam
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The Giant and the Pissant: A Fairy TaleKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Penguin Books, 1997.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Hanoi |
Vietnam
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Viet Nam Then and Now: A Veteran ReturnsMichael 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...
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Vietnam
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Colonel CassandraKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of the biography of Edward Lansdale, model of The Ugly American and The Quiet American.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Film Review: IndochineCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] Catherine Deneuve, in perhaps the defining role of her career, stars in Indochine, one of the best Asian epics ever made...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in MalaysiaEe 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...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Malaysia |
Terengganu |
Vietnam
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The Lover: A Film and Book ReviewCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] "Very early in my life it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. I aged. This aging was brutal. It spread over my features, one by one. I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of...
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Vietnam
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In Retrospect In RetrospectKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] A review of In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara, who was secretary of defense during part of the Vietnam War.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Hollywood's VietnamThingsAsian Booklist - tab [1,449] 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. * * *...
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Vietnam
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Our Cassandra in SaigonKenneth 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".
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