Volume 8, Number 2 · February 9, 1967
The View from Vietnam
By Bernard B. Fall
SOE in France
by M.R.D. Foot
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (London), 550 pp., $9.00
Vietnam! Vietnam!
by Felix Greene
Fulton (Palo Alto), 175 pp., $2.95
Vietnam in the Mud
by James Pickerell
Bobbs-Merrill, 129 pp., $2.25
Vietcong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
by Douglas Pike
M.I.T., 490 pp., $8.95
Vietnam Seen from East and West
edited by Sibnarayan Ray
Praeger, 192 pp., $5.95
The Politics of Escalation in Vietnam
by Franz Schurmann
Fawcett, 160 pp., $.60 (paper)
One of the added pleasures of covering the Vietnam war from inside Vietnam is that it is possible to lose track completely of what is going on elsewhere in the world—not only in the world, in fact, but in Vietnam as well. When with the Marines in the northern part of South Vietnam, it is perfectly easy to learn that Private Smith—whose first and middle names, home town and state, age, high school, are supplied on the spot by the ever-helpful PIO's—wiped out a Viet Cong position with a burst of his trusty M-14; but it is almost impossible to find out whether the landing in the Mekong Delta was really the hopeless botch it seemed to be from eyewitness reports. The reader of a good newspaper at home is likely to find out about this before I do.
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