Blogs in January 1970

The Things They Carried 1st January 1970

A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America’s involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to...

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The Disappeared 1st January 1970

After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia’s killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she...

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Ru 1st January 1970

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...

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Flying Through Midnight 1st January 1970

A former 606 Special Operations Squadron member recounts his 1970 top-secret combat mission over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which fellow pilots and he struggled for survival by utilizing daredevil piloting tactics to outmaneuver thousands of anti-aircraft...

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Paradise of the Blind 1st January 1970

Three women struggle to survive in this savage account of Vietnam’s Maoist-style land reform of the 1950s and its aftermath. Hang, a young woman, tells of the hardship, chaos and disillusionment it sowed, dividing her family and shattering the...

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