Stop The War (The Cats Are Killing Themselves)
Michael Herr mentions this old classic in the opening pages of his Vietnam war memoir/reportage, Dispatches. Stop The War (The …
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No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong
I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming …
Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos …
Why Did They Kill? — An Anthropologist Looks at the Cambodian Genocide
Among the modern horrors of mass killings of non combatants, from the Holocaust on [or for many scholars from the …
Saigon: Surprise and Sorrow
Saigon is a surprise and still a sorrow. 38 years after the American war ended it shows barely a sign …
Laos and the Legacies of War
When the mind turns to South East Asia and war, Vietnam and Cambodia come quickly to mind. For most, Laos might …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …