Forgotten 1st June 2016
What if you woke up in a strange place and didn’t know who you were? A woman reins consciousness in a Thai hospital unaware of how she got there or who she is. The doctor names her Kai, the...
‘For the first time in my life I felt that death was a possibility; a stupid, pointless, lonely death on the aptly named Mondulkiri Death Highway.’ The Ho Chi Minh Trail is one of the greatest feats of military...
Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing...
Born in the early 1960s and having no direct experience of the Viet Nam War, Edith Shillue arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in September 1993 from her native Massachusetts to begin work as a university lecturer in...
For many people, Vietnam remains a war not a country. This text explores the country behind the myths and images, looking at Vietnam’s literature, history, art and architecture, politics, religion and food. The author shows the emerging popular culture...
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