Research Catalog

Title

Vietnam : a portrait of its people at war / David Chanoff & Doan Van Toai.

Author

Chanoff, David.

Publication

London ; New York, I.B. Tauris, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Doan, Van Toai, 1946-

Description

xxii, 215 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This is the view from the other side - the murderous trek down the Ho Chi Minh trail and life under American bombing.

Uniform Title

Portrait of the enemy

Alternative Title

Portrait of the enemy

Subjects

• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War > (1961-1975)
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, North Vietnamese
• Personal narratives > North Vietnamese
• Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives – North Vietnamese
• Personal narratives – North Vietnamese.

Note

• "First published in the UK ... in 1987 in hardback as Portrait of the enemy"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Xuan Vu's Story: The Fench War -- Nguyen Cong Hoan's Story: Coming of Age to the South -- Nguyen Thi Ty (Nguyen Cong Hoan's Wife): Hoan in Prison -- Trinh Duc's Story: In the Underground -- Le Van Tra: Leave-taking -- Huong Van Ba: Going North -- Truong Nhu Tang: Meeting Uncle Ho -- Tran Van Tra: Uncle Ho's Parting Words -- Hoang Huu Quynh: Ten Years to Grow a Tree -- The Venerable Giac Duc: Buddhists and Catholics, the Beginning -- Volunteers and Conscripts -- Nguyen Tan Thanh -- Phan Thanh Long -- Nguyen Van Hoang -- Bui Van Binh -- Nguyen Van Hung -- Hoang Thien Loc: A Chinese in the North -- Le Thanh: Coming of Age in the North -- Nguyen Ngoc Oahn (Le Thanh's Wife): Seamstress -- Tran Xuan Niem: Try to Keep Your Faces Intact -- Nguyen Trong Nghi: Our Future Selves -- Xuan Vu's Story: In the North -- Nguyen Cong Hoan's Story: In Opposition -- Nguyen Thi Ty (Nguyen Cong Hoan's Wife): Assemblyman's Wife -- Trinh Duc's Story: Village Chief --^
• Le Thi Dau (Trinh Duc's Wife): Vietcong Nurse -- Nam Duc Mao: Messengers of Death -- Han Vi: A Single Will -- Hoang Huu Quynh: Blood Debt -- The Bombing -- Nguyen Van Mo: Hanoi Under Attack -- Tran Van Truong: Bombing in Haiphong -- The Capture of Commander Richard Stratton -- Nguyen Van Thanh: Antiaircraft Battery -- Van Anh: Capturing an American Pilot -- The Venerable Giac Duc: Buddhists and Catholics, the Showdown -- On the Ho Chi Minh Trail -- The Ho Chi Minh Trail -- Nguyen Danh: Opening the Ho Chi Minh Trail -- Sau Thuong: The Road in the Motherland -- Huong Van Ba: Back Down the Trail -- Vu Hung: The Battle of Dong Xoai -- The Mine Sappers -- Nguyen Van Mo -- Hoang Tat Hong -- Van Cong Van -- Captain Stuart Herrington: The American Side -- Nguyen Van Thich: VC Assassin -- Bui Van Tai: The B-521 -- Tran Van Tra: Comradeship -- Xuan Vu's Story: Back to the South -- Nguyen Cong Hoan's Story: The Communist Assembly -- Nguyen Thi they (Nguyen Cong Hoan's Wife): Death in Absentia --^
• Trinh Duc's Story: The Purge -- Afterword / David Chanoff.

ISBN

1860640761 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96060447^

OCLC

• 35275909
• SCSB-12251680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library