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- Location(s): Barcelona, Illinois, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
There are two main settings for this book, Barcelona and Illinois – and deals with experiences from the Vietnam War. An anonymous narrator guides us along, with Rodney Falk, a Vietnam War Veteran. They meet in the late 80s...
- Location(s): London, South East Asia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests. In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the corpses. And realises that his past...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1960s
“In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved into the jungle. Monsoon clouds swirl around the high summit, which is the hiding place of the marines from Bravo company. Close to Laos and North Vietnam, this is total isolation, skirmishes and battles...
- Location(s): Laos
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): End of 1990s
Brett Dakin spent two years working in Vientiane, Laos and returned to the States a changed man. In Another Quiet American, he takes you through the corridors of power and into the living rooms of Laos. You’ll meet his...
Derailed in Uncle Ho’s Victory Garden: Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam
- Location(s): Cambodia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
A colourful time of Page’s time in Vietnam and Cambodia, peppered with the parlance of the day, and insightfully written.
- Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...
- Location(s): Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Max Quinlan is an Australian ex-cop turned PI whose latest case is to find missing business Charles Avery. The trail leads to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Along the way Max will team up with an Australian journalist...
- Location(s): Hanoi, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s
10 years in the war and Kien suffers a breakdown – he has seen too much, experienced the horrors of this particular war. In Hanoi he tries to re-establish a relationship former girlfriend. A truly heart rending story of...
- Location(s): San José, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
With insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam...
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