0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden
While Max Hastings attempted to do the impossible and cover the entire 14 years plus of the American War in Indochina, Mark Bowden humbles himself before the historic edifice and…
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0687 | Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy | Max Hastings
It’s hard to know where to start with the Vietnam War such was the lengthy prelude that the people of that nation were subjected to by the French and Japanese….
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0662 | Paradise of the Blind | Duong Thu Huong
I thought this was going to be really good. It was the first novel translated from Vietnamese to English even though it was only published in 1988. That says a…
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0274 | The Day of the Dolphin – Robert Merle
Context: Read this as we took our first flight on the double-decker A380 from Dubai to Seoul. Very nice. REVIEW Never heard of this until, scanning my copy of the…
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0200 | The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Context: Read this on Holloways Beach, just north of Cairns as we settled into the sand for a day. REVIEW A true war story is never moral. It does not…
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0187 | The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Context: Listened to this as we moved from High Wycombe to Cambridge and settled in in Bar Hill. REVIEW Not one of Greene’s best and one of his later works….