Fish Heads, Rice, Rice Wine & War: A Vietnam Paradox

Smith, Tom

ISBN 10: 1930754264 / ISBN 13: 9781930754263

Published by Durban House Pub Co Inc, 2001

About this Item

Good stiff paper soft cover colored showing a Montagnard meal of Fish heads, rice, rice win. A series of many single scratches on front cover from the previous owner. No other marks found. Some personal snapshots at Chapter ends of native villages. Bright clean unmarked text. This looks a Vietnam paradox is an effort to have the reader recognize that even in the midst of deplorable conditions during combat missions, Americans are a compassionate, joking people even in war. After all, laughter finds sanity when there's nothing else left.

Seller Inventory # 7057

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fish Heads, Rice, Rice Wine & War: A Vietnam Paradox
• Publisher: Durban House Pub Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930754264
• ISBN 13: 9781930754263
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Vietnam

About this title

Synopsis

Seeded in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam during 1966-1969, Fish Heads, Rice, Rice Wine & War: A Vietnam Paradox, draws on the human, yet humorous side of the strangest and most misunderstood war ever, in which American soldiers were committed.

Fish heads cooked with rice and accompanied with rice wine are the basic staples in the day-to-day lives of Montagnard natives. Equally, these staples were the subject of many jokes, songs and ‘the day after the night before’ headaches, as well as more than average the number of trips to the latrine for those of us who lived among them.

Without intent to remove the callousness of war itself, Fish Heads, Rice, Rice Wine & War: A Vietnam Paradox is an effort to have the reader recognize that even in the midst of deplorable conditions and carrying out an undefined combat mission, Americans by their very nature are a fun-loving, compassionate, joking people---war being merely and aside in which they find themselves thrown. Even when they find themselves involved in the blood and guts of war, soldiers will always find the means to laugh. After all, laughter lends sanity when there’s nothing else left.

Review

"A true insiders view of the undeclared war known as Vietnam." -- Richard Sand (Private Justice)

"An unforgettable book. A must read for anyone wanting to know about the real Vietnam." -- John Hamilton Lewis (Basha)