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Peace and Prisoners of War - A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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Peace and Prisoners of War - A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War (Paperback)
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American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the
period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975.
But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's
South Vietnamese allies combined with a period of intense
diplomatic negotiations conducted under the increasing reality that
America had abandoned them. In Peace and Prisoners of War, written
in "real-time" as events occurred, Phan Nhat Nam provides a unique
window into the harsh combat that followed America's withdrawal and
the hopelessness of South Vietnam's attempt to stave off an
eventual communist victory. Few others could have written this
book. Phan Nhat Nam saw the war for years as a combat soldier in
one of South Vietnam's most respected airborne divisions, then as
the country's most respected war reporter, and for fourteen years
after the war as a prisoner in Hanoi's infamous "re-education"
camps, including eight years in solitary confinement. In the war's
aftermath anonymity became his fate both inside Vietnam and here in
America. But now one of his important works is available, enhanced
by an introduction by Senator James Webb, one of the most decorated
Marines in the Vietnam War. Webb describes this revealing work as
"an unvarnished observation frozen in time, devoid of spin or false
retrospective wisdom." Phan's reporting makes clear the sense of
doom that foretold the tragic events to come, on the battlefields
and in the frustration of negotiating with an implacable enemy
while abandoned by its foremost ally. Readers will find this book
both enlightening and disturbing, its observations until now
overlooked in most histories of the Vietnam War.
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