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...
The Man from Saigon 1st January 1970
Susan Gifford is a female correspondent working in Saigon. Together with Son, a Vietnames photographer, she covers the war. One morning there is an ambush and they are captured by three Vietcong. Hiding in the jungle they are threatened...
The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam’s Most Famous Casualty 1st January 1970
Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Hers is the photo that shot around the world when she ran towards the photographer, severely burned by napalm. Denise Chong describes Kim’s experience and recovery in this astonishing biography and...
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...