Volume 6, Number 8 · May 12, 1966
Vietnam: The Turning Point
By Jean Lacouture
Here Is Your Enemy
by James Cameron
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 160 pp., $3.95
On the screen an old peasant woman stands amidst devastated houses and fields; like twenty-five million men and women in both parts of her country she wears black silk pajamas. Her left sleeve hangs empty. The picture dissolves quickly and those who see her on the television film that James Cameron, an English newspaperman, has brought back from North Vietnam will forget her—unless they have also read his book, Here Is Your Enemy. It is dedicated to the 'old lady who lives in the village of Naah Ngang, in the Thanh Hoa province of North Vietnam which is unfortunately near a strategically important bridge.'
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