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Mekong Diaries - Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964-1975 (Hardcover)
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Mekong Diaries - Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964-1975 (Hardcover)
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In May 1965, vice president Hubert Humphrey declared that "the Viet
Cong has committed the most unbelievable acts of terrorism the
world has ever known." And throughout the long conflict in Vietnam,
Americans similarly demonized the enemy fighters as reds, gooks,
and fanatical killers. Offering a radically different view of these
supposedly savage soldiers, "Mekong Diaries" presents
never-before-published drawings, poems, letters, and oral histories
by ten of the most celebrated Viet Cong war artists.
These guerrilla artists--some military officers and some
civilians--lived clandestinely with the fighters, moving camp
alongside them, going on reconnaissance missions, and carrying
their sketchbooks, ink, and watercolors into combat. Trained by
professors from the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts who journeyed down
the perilous Ho Chi Minh Trail to ensure a pictorial history of the
war, they recorded battles and events from Operation Junction City
to Khe Sanh to the Tet Offensive. They also sketched as the spirit
moved them, rendering breathtaking landscapes, hut and bunker
interiors, activities at base camps, troops on the move, portraits
for the families of fallen soldiers, and the unimaginable
devastation that the conflict left in its wake.
Their collective record--which Sherry Buchanan skillfully compiles
here--is an extraordinary historical and artistic document of
people at war. As such, it serves as a powerful response to the
self-centeredness of American accounts of Vietnam, filling a
profound gap in our national memory by taking us into the
misunderstood worlds of those whom we once counted among our worst
enemies.
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