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Blogs in January 1970

Matterhorn 1st January 1970

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...

The Zenith 1st January 1970

Dragon House 1st January 1970

This book focuses on Qui and Tam, the granddaughter, who is dying of leukemia, and the story of Mai and Minh, two children under the dubious “protection” of an opium-fiend named Loc. Iris picks up where her father left...

If I Die in a Combat Zone 1st January 1970

A personal journey throught the Vietnam war, a war no-one really wanted, facing an enemy in alien and inhospitable terrain. This the “the” book of the Vietnam war.

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...