Volume 19, Number 6 · October 19, 1972
The Invisible Country
By Frances FitzGerald
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885-1925
by David G. Marr
University of California, 322 pp., $3.65 (paper)
Hô Chi Minh, le Viêtnam, l'Asie
by Paul Mus, edited by Annie Nguyen Nguyet Hô
Editions du Seuil, 256 pp., 21F
War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province
by Jeffrey Race
University of California, 299 pp., $11.95
A few months ago a friend of mine, a Vietnamese journalist from Saigon, visited a hamlet in Kien Hoa province—a hamlet that like so many of its neighbors had been ravaged by the American operations of 1968-1969 and the subsequent GVN attempts at pacification. Houses lay in ruins, most of the inhabitants had fled, and the defoliated coconut groves looked like fields of telephone poles. As there were Government troops throughout the hamlet and almost no other young men, the journalist concluded that the pacification had finally succeeded. But at ten o'clock at night the Government troops retired to their outposts and there appeared at his doorway a man with a pistol under his shirt who introduced himself as the hamlet chief for the National Liberation Front.
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