A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath - Hardcover

Troung Nhu Tang; David Chanoff; Doan Van Toai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151936366 ISBN 13: 9780151936366

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985

Synopsis

Offers a first-hand account of Viet Cong activity in South Vietnam, the torments of the war, and the country's unification.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Our Vietnam literature has been almost entirely an argument by and among Americans. Tang offers a useful and disturbing corrective."--The New York Review of Books

From the Back Cover:

"Beautifully written." -- William Shawcross, front page, Washington Post Book World

"By showing the nature and hidden strength of our opponents, this account goes a long way toward explaining why America failed in Vietnam despite its greatly superior military power. But A Vietcong Memoir is more than just an exposition of the revolutionaries' side of the war. It is also an absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era."

-- Arnold R. Isaacs, Chicago Tribune

"Literate, mercifully free of the stridencies and banalities that characterize the Communists' agitprop prose. The prose gives off an aura of authenticity and reasonableness."

-- Robert Manning, The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0151936366
• ISBN 13: 9780151936366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350