LOST IN TRANSLATION
LOST IN TRANSLATION Vietnam: A Combat Advisor’s Story By Martin J. Dockery Presidio Press, 2003 Martin Dockery, a lawyer by training, has in Lost in Translation...
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Hell in a Very Small Place
HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE By Bernard Fall Da Capo Press; Reprint edition (April 2002) Although I have largely abandoned my researches into the history of Vietnam, the...
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WATER FRONTIER Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 EDITED BY NOLA COOKE AND LI TANA This book of essays continues the pioneering work of...
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BEFORE THE FALL For some reason I have failed this year to post reviews of a number of books that I loved and are central to this blogh. How does this happen? Well,...
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BEFORE THE STORM BY RICK PERLSTEIN Rick Perlstein’s Before The Storm is a prequel to his book Nixonland and views the rise of the modern conservative movement through...
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IN THE MIDST OF WARS: GRAHAM GREENE’S THE QUIET AMERICAN The Quiet American By Graham Greene In The Midst of Wars By Edward Landsdale The Huk Rebllion By Benedict J....
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