Vietnam Travel Guides

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From Publishers Weekly

Miller served with the Army in Vietnam from 1966 to ’72, winning the Medal of Honor and six Purple Hearts. Writing with Army captain Kureth he here discusses the attractions of combat: “I loved it. I couldn’t get enough.” Miller is aggressively outspoken and repugnant about the business of killing (“Genuine killers are not to be confused with guys who simply spray the area and happen to kill someone”) and objectionably recalls that he nearly murdered his Vietnamese girlfriend for no particular reason (“To this day I’m not sure why I wanted to kill her”). After his Medal of Honor exploit his superiors consigned him to a psychiatric ward purportedly in order to remove him from the combat zone. Miller found peacetime duty almost unendurable (“My extensive combat skills and ass-kicking abilities were no longer needed”) but recovered his morale as an infantry instructor. He is still on active duty with the Army. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information (more…)

The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure—at least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe. Yet, Phillip Jennings sets the record straight in The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War. In this latest “P.I.G.”, Jennings shatters culturally-accepted myths and busts politically incorrect lies that liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling you for years. The Vietnam War was the most important—and successful—campaign to defeat Communism. Without the sacrifices made and the courage displayed by our military, the world might be a different place. The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Vietnam War reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.

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Think the United States lost the Vietnam War? Think again.No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation and myth as the Vietnam War: “Vietna (more…)

Review

“Discloses what the American military and political leadership largely misunderstood: the nature of Vietnamese society, the confrontation with colonialism and Western values, the resistance of the intellectuals, and the culture of the people.” — Herbert Mitgang, New York Times”Jamieson ranges over the entire sweep of Vietnamese political culture, using as his window of observation the past century’s Vietnamese literary output. There is nothing quite like this in print.” — Indochina Chronology”Quite simply the most insightful interpretation of Vietnam ever to appear anywhere. No other book touches such vital issues; no other book explains so much; no other book is as important.” — Leonard Bushkoff, Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this (more…)

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Exactly why was America in Vietnam? This remarkable and essential seven-volume series–six years in the making and originally broadcast on public television in 1983–tells the agonizing history of Vietnam’s lengthy conflicts with some of the largest powers on Earth. While the primary focus is on the United States’ miserable efforts to prop up a porous, anti-Communist government in South Vietnam as a bulwark against Chinese and Soviet expansionism, the series’ makers expend no less energy detailing important antecedents to America’s intervention. Of vital interest are the first two hours, which tell the compelling story of France’s 80-year colonial rule in Southeast Asia and the rise of a European-educated generation of Vietnamese intellectuals turned warriors, chief among them the architect of Vietnam’s prolonged revolt against the West, Ho Chi Minh. By the time a viewer comes to understand how and why America shrugged off Vietnamese independence after World (more…)

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have been updated to include expanded hotel and restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and easier-to-read print.
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Borne from the Southeast Asian guidebook that The International Herald Tribune’s Thai Day hailed as a guide with depth and color that most of [its] competitors lack, To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur launches the To Asia With Love series. This beautiful, full-color guidebook features a collection of personal essays by savvy expatriates, seasoned travelers, and inspired locals. Each reflection on a favorite dining, shopping, sightseeing, or cultural experience is paired with a practical fact file, so that readers can follow in the writers footsteps. From staying overnight with a local hill tribe and climbing Southeast Asia’s highest mountain, to touring historic French villas and getting involved with local charities, every recommendation captures a distinctive aspect of the country.

About the Author

Editor Kim Fay first traveled to Southeast Asia in 1991. Since then, she spent four years living in Vietnam and has traveled back fr (more…)

BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions–there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint–fighting, sacrificing, and dying (more…)