a poignant description of Cambodia,Laos & Vietnam in 1950,with all their beauty,gentleness,grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world,like a phoenix,from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy,ranged against the French colonial powers,and the early affects of imported Western materialism - a best-seller when first published,and venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the'70s - inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American
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Publisher: Eland Publishing LtdISBN: 9780907871330Number of pages: 336
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"one of the best post-war travel books and,in retrospect,the most heart-rending" The Observer
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