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America's Lost War: Vietnam, 1945-1975 • Charles E. Neu HISTORY • 2005 • PAPER • 272 PAGES A history of the Vietnam War based on the popular course by recently retired Brown University professor of American foreign relations Charles E. Neu. (VNM69, $21.95)
America's Miracle Man In Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, And U.S. Intervention In Southeast Asia 1950-1957 • Seth Jacobs HISTORY • 2005 • PAPER • 367 PAGES This diplomatic and cultural history draws on archives, private papers, novels, newspapers, radio broadcasts and more to show how, in the 1950s, U.S. policymakers conceived of Cold War anticommunism as a crusade against an adversary dangerous as much for its atheism as for its military might. (VNM117, $26.95)
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us • James Carroll BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1997 • PAPER • 279 PAGES Winner of the National Book Award, this is the tragic story of an American family whose beliefs and familial bonds are shattered by the raging Vietnam war. Novelist Carroll recounts growing up under the auspicious shadow of his father, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency throughout most of the war. Carroll's decision to become a priest thrills his father, but when he sides with the liberal Catholics and draft resisters, his family relationships are jeopardized. (VNM38, $15.95)
Ancient Vietnam, History and Archaeology • Anne-Valerie Schweyer ARCHAEOLOGY • 2010 • PAPER • 400 PAGES The history of Vietnam is one of spectacular confrontations, both cultural and ideological between the world of the Chinese -- a world adopted by the ethnic Viet living in the Red River basin -- and the Indian world, facets of which are seen in the Cham, whose numerous small kingdoms were strung out all along the coast from north of Hue to south of Phan Rang. The first part of this book presents a comprehensive history of Vietnam from the 6th to 15th centuries, highlighting the clashes between the two major civilisations which are the foundation of modern Vietnam. The second part takes the reader on a tour of over 60 archaeological sites which are a testament to this history. Maps, plans and numerous photographs will help us to experience the history of ancient Vietnam both in its early beginnings and its subsequent evolution. (VNM137, $25.00)
Apocalypse Now, The Complete Dossier • Francis Ford Coppola 2006 • DVD In Coppola's classic adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a battle weary captain is sent on a top secret mission to "terminate the command" of renegade Colonel Kurz in the jungles of Cambodia. This new two-disc collector's edition features both the original 1979 version and the 2001 "redux" version, as well as commentary by Coppola, never-before-seen footage and several documentaries on the making of the movie. (CBD51, $19.99)
Argument Without End, In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy • Robert S. McNamara HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 512 PAGES The result of a series of meetings with North Vietnamese leaders from 1995-1998, this book with analysis and introductions by McNamara, draws on transcripts and recently declassified documents. (VNM75, $17.00)
Arts of Southeast Asia • Fiona Kerlogue ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2004 • PAPER • 224 PAGES A handsome guide to the art, architecture, textiles and crafts of Southeast Asia, featuring 183 illustrations, 102 in color. Organized thematically, this concise book includes chapters on Hindu, Buddhist and indigenous art. A volume in the World of Art series. (SEA45, $16.95)
ARVN, Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army • Robert K. Brigham HISTORY • 2006 • HARD COVER • 178 PAGES The first book dedicated solely to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)--"also known as the South Vietnamese Army--"focuses on troop morale and motivation within the context of traditional Vietnamese society and culture, and the paranoid political regime that made unrealistic demands upon its soldiers without giving them the training, equipment, leadership and ideology they needed to succeed. (VNM115, $29.95)
Beneath Buddha's Eyes • Tony Anthony LITERATURE • 2002 • HARD COVER • 296 PAGES In this compelling second novel, a love story set in the midst of war, reporter Peter Hill tells of his affair with a colleague in Vietnam, clandestine missions, corruption and making your way during the chaos and horror of the war. The author Tony Anthony was drafted into the Army and assigned to the infantry as a Combat Correspondent in Vietnam. (VNM52, $25.00)
The Best and the Brightest • David Halberstam HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 688 PAGES Halberstam's masterful epic tale of the policymaking, outsized egos and infuriating blunders that got the United States embroiled in the Vietnam war. (VNM101, $18.00)
The Boat • Nam Le LITERATURE • 2009 • PAPER • 288 PAGES The heart-rending stories from diverse locations (Vietnam, Australia, Colombia, Iran) in this debut collection are told with remarkable skill and mastery. (VNM123, $15.00)
A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and the Americans in Vietnam • Neil Sheehan HISTORY • 1989 • PAPER • 861 PAGES A political history of the war as seen through the story of one of its soldiers, this prize-winning book is a hard-hitting expose on the failure of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia. (VNM27, $19.95)
The Cat from Hue, A Vietnam Story • John Laurence BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2002 • PAPER • 864 PAGES Journalist John Laurence's detailed and haunting account of Vietnam War combines his first hand experiences as a correspondent with a historical overview of the war. The cat in the title is Meo, a Vietnamese stray he adopted along the way. (VNM67, $21.99)
CDC's Complete Guide to Health Travel • Charles Ericcson • Kent C. Davis GUIDEBOOK • 1997 • PAPER • 432 PAGES Solid advice for healthy travel around the world by the Center for Disease Control. (TRV01, $15.00)
Child of War, Woman of Peace • Le Ly Hayslip LITERATURE • 1993 • PAPER • 388 PAGES Further memoirs from the author of "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places." (VNM78, $19.00)
Close Quarters • Larry Heinemann BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2006 • AUDIO CD Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River. (VNM94, $26.95)
Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam • Mandy Thomas • Lisa Drummond CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2003 • HARD COVER • 227 PAGES In this scholarly collection of essays, diverse contributors -- many Vietnamese -- examine everyday life and popular culture in contemporary Vietnam. The editors, who provide a historical background for current developments, include contributions on television, dance, political cartoons movies, short fiction and social issues. (VNM65, $195.00)
The Country of Memory, Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam • Hue-Tam Ho Tai HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 284 PAGES A collection of essays by diverse authors on modern Vietnamese culture and society. (VNM60, $28.95)
Crossing the River • Nguyen Huy Thiep LITERATURE • 2004 • PAPER • 352 PAGES Thiep's short stories, both those set in contemporary Vietnam and his retelling of folk myths, capture the emotional quality and struggles of Vietnamese life. Born in Hanoi in 1950, where he now lives, Nguyen Huy Thiep spent much of his youth in rural Vietnam where his mother worked as an agricultural laborer. (VNM143, $16.95)
Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam • Shaun Kingsley Malarney HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 224 PAGES This is a recently published monograph by an associate professor of cultural anthropology at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, who has written on a variety of topics including transformations of wedding and funeral practices, local politics, commerce and entrepreneurship. Based on both field work in northern Vietnam and archival materials, the study looks at the impact of the revolutionary campaign to transform Vietnamese society. A volume in the Univeristy of Hawaii Press Anthropology in Asia series. (VNM61, $49.00)
Descending the Dragon, My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam • Rob Howard • Jon Bowermaster TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2008 • PAPER • 144 PAGES Bowermaster and a team, including his long suffering foreign press monitor and photographers set forth from Hanoi, by kayak, to explore the long coast of Vietnam on an eight-week journey of discovery. (VNM121, $21.95)
Distant Road: Selected Poems of Nguyen Duy • Nguyen Duy • Kevin Bowen • Ba Chung Nguyen LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 257 PAGES A selection of poems, including those about the Vietnamese War. Born in Thanh Hoa in 1948, Duy served with distinction in the North Vietnamese Army. (VNM76, $15.95)
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation • Carl Bielefeldt RELIGION • 1990 • PAPER • 267 PAGES Drawing on the work of famous thirteenth century Zen master Dogen Kigen, Bielefeldt offers insight into modern Zen study and practice. (REL37, $25.95)
A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam • Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2003 • PAPER • 358 PAGES • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A classic account of travels and adventure during the last years of French Indochina, strong on atmosphere and including wonderfully detailed descriptions of local cultures and archaeological treasures. Originally published in 1951, this was the first title by John Hatt and the estimable Eland books. (SEA40, $33.95)
Dragon House • John Shors LITERATURE • 2009 • PAPER • 354 PAGES After the death of her father, who worked toward opening a center for Vietnamese street children, Iris travels to Ho Chi Minh City to finish his work, accompanied by Noah, an injured and embittered Iraq veteran she knew as a child. (VNM142, $15.00)
Dumb Luck, A Novel • Trong Phung Vu LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 200 PAGES The first translation of a major work from the influential Vietnamese satirist Trong Phung Vu, who died, aged 27, in 1939. Regarded as Vu's masterwork, this clever novel skewers the feverish rush towards modernization in late colonial Vietnam. (VNM108, $21.95)
Earth and Water, Encounters in Vietnam • Edith Shillue BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1997 • PAPER • 234 PAGES A meditative account of experiences and encounters in Vietnam as a teacher and traveler in the 1990s. IN this lovely memoir, Shillue, an English professor, reflects on the people, culture and history of the country, interweaving her time living with a family and teaching in Saigon with her travels to Nam Ha Province (where she taught in a village school) and journeys throughout the country. (VNM79, $24.95)
The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization, 1850-1990 • Oscar Salemink HISTORY • 2003 • HARD COVER • 368 PAGES In this scholarly monography Salemink examines representation of the Montagnards since 1850, tracing changes in ethnography over a key period. Salemink, an anthropologist who collected oral histories in the Central Highlands for this study, is program officer for social sciences and humanities at the Ford Foundation in Hanoi. A volume in the University of Hawaii Press Anthropology of Asia series. (VNM64, $52.00)
Family Tightrope, The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans • Nazli Kibria CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1995 • PAPER • 196 PAGES Using ethnographic techniques to profile a community of Vietnamese immigrants in Philadelphia, Kibria challenges the conventional wisdom about Vietnamese-Americans' cultural assimilation. (VNM109, $32.95)
Fields of Fire • James Webb LITERATURE • 2000 • PAPER • 360 PAGES The first novel from former marine and Vietnam vet James Webb, a harrowing story of a platoon deep in the Vietnamese jungle. First published in 1978, it remains one of the most realistic and challenging novels on the war. (VNM68, $19.95)
Fodor's See It Vietnam • Fodor's GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 304 PAGES A compact, well-illustrated of Vietnam and its attractions. With good information on what to see and where to eat, sleep, and shop. (VNM84, $24.95)
Footprint Vietnam • Claire Bobbyer GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 480 PAGES A detailed, comprehensive guide in the Footprint series. With practical information of accommodations, food, events and sights. Perfect for the independent traveler. (SEA61, $25.95)
Footprint Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos • Jack O'Tailan • Claire Boobbyer • John Colet • Andrew Spooner GUIDEBOOK • 2011 • PAPER • 576 PAGES A detailed, practical guide to Bangkok, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, filled with maps, background on attractions, practical information on transportation, food, activities and lodgings, and a handful of well selected photographs. About half the book focuses on Vietnam, but there is an extended chapter on Angkor and about 100 pages on Laos. (SEA52, $25.95)
Fragments of the Present, Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South • Philip Taylor HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 237 PAGES In this wide-ranging anthropological study, based on a field work in a Mekong delta village, Taylor looks at southern Vietnam's postwar history, economic and social change and the contrast between urban and rural life. (VNM62, $34.00)
Frommer's Vietnam, inluding Angkor Wat • Charles Agar GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 472 PAGES A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions. (VNM111, $22.99)
Frommer's Vietnam, inluding Angkor Wat • Charles Agar GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 472 PAGES A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions. (VNM111, $22.99)
Full Metal Jacket • Stanley Kubrick 2004 • DVD Kubrick follows a young marine from boot camp to the 1968 Tet Offensive in this two-segment Vietnam epic. (VNM97, $19.96)
The Green Berets • Ray Kellogg • John Wayne 2004 • DVD A grizzled army colonel assembles a team of elite Green Berets in South Vietnam to capture a Viet Cong general in this gung-ho thriller starring John Wayne. (VNM99, $12.97)
Heaven and Earth • Oliver Stone 2006 • DVD Oliver Stone's film of a young Vietnamese villager who marries a U.S. marine after the war, based on the memoir by Le Ly Hayslip (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places). (VNM100, $19.97)
Ho Chi Minh, A Life • William Duiker BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 695 PAGES Dissident, revolutionary, communist, Ho Chi Minh returned from exile to lead North Vietnam's defiant break with colonial France. Duiker charts in convincing detail Ho Chi Minh's long march from the son of a scholar in the rural provinces to idealist student in heady 1920s Paris to rebel and determined revolutionary. Ho Chi Minh died in 1969. The book is hard going, not enlivened by much in the way of anecdote, but definitive -- and well worth the effort for travelers interested in the fundamentals of the Vietnamese drive to oust the French from Indo-China. (VNM45, $19.99)
Imagining Vietnam and America, The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 • Mark Bradley HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 304 PAGES A scholarly and balanced study exploring perceptions the Americans and Vietnamese had of each other in the early twentieth century leading up to the Vietnam War. Winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. (VNM141, $27.95)
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War • Tobias Wolff BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1995 • PAPER • 221 PAGES A vivid memoir of his tour of duty in Vietnam, Wolf deploys his characteristic wit and insight on the experiences of a hapless young man over his head in a strange country under sometimes horrifying circumstances. He interweaves telling anecdotes, personal history and meditation. Part three of the book is a telling acount of returning home. (VNM34, $15.00)
In Search of Southeast Asia: a Modern History • David P. Chandler • David J. Steinberg HISTORY • 1988 • PAPER • 590 PAGES Written by seven historians of Asia, this scholarly overview of the social, economic and political history of Southeast Asia is an excellent introduction to the region. A popular text for courses on modern Southeast Asian history, the organizing theme of the book is the region's cultural adaptation to change. Parts 2, 4 & 5 are organized by country. (SEA18, $32.00)
Indochine • Regis Wargnier CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2008 • DVD Winner of the Academy Award for the best foreign language film of 1992, Catherine Deneuve stars in this love triangle set in Vietnam in the days before the 1954 communist revolution in Indochina. (VNM135, $24.96)
Insight Compact Guide Vietnam • Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 96 PAGES This lavishly illustrated compact guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essys on history, culture and attractions. (VNM131, $9.95)
Insight Pocket Guide Hanoi • Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2005 • PAPER • 96 PAGES A handy full-color guide to the city with a pull-out map. Features recommendations for dining, shopping and sightseeing with an overview of the city's highlights. (VNM71, $13.95)
Insight Pocket Guide Vietnam • Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2006 • PAPER • 104 PAGES A slim illustrated guide and separate pull-out map. (VNM86, $13.95)
Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, Ancient Foodways, Modern Flavors • Andrea Quynhgiao Nguyen FOOD • 2006 • HARD COVER • 344 PAGES Sophisticated yet simple, the recipes in this book include steamy pho noodle soups infused with the aromas of fresh herbs and lime; rich clay-pot preparations of catfish, chicken, and pork; classic banh mi sandwiches; and an array of Vietnamese charcuterie. (VNM124, $35.00)
Jewelry of Southeast Asia • Anne Richter ART & ARCHITECTURE • 2000 • HARD COVER • 304 PAGES An in-depth analysis of Southeast Asia's jewelry tradition that spans from the Neolithic and Bronze Age to the present, complemented by 350 full-color illustrations. Richter showcases more than 300 prized pieces and provides insightful commentary. (SEA25, $75.00)
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram • Dang Thuy Tram BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2008 • PAPER • 225 PAGES Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Vietcong woman doctor, recovered by an American soldier, offers insight into the lives of the people of North Vietnam during the war. (VNM132, $13.99)
Koto, A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam • Tracey Lister FOOD • 2011 • PAPER • 260 PAGES Arranged by region, this engaging cookbook weaves personal stories and national history with a culinary appreciation of the markets, traditions and food of daily life in Vietnam. (VNM133, $34.95)
Lonely Planet Hanoi & Halong Bay Encounter • GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (VNM104, $11.99)
Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & the Greater Mekong • Nick Ray GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 564 PAGES This compact, practical guide, featuring maps and information on history, culture, excursions, accommodations and sightseeing, covers the entire Mekong region from Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to Yunnan Province. (SEA63, $24.99)
Lost Soldiers • James Webb LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 464 PAGES A sequel to the novelist (and Vietnam Vet) James Webb's Fields of Fire. (VNM70, $7.99)
The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future • Milton Osborne HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 320 PAGES A cultural history of the great river from prehistory to European exploration, colonial tensions and modern challenges. It's an engaging introduction to the history of Southeast Asia. Osborne has also written an account of the 19th-century search for the source of the Mekong (SEA29). (SEA28, $16.00)
Modernity and Re-Enchantment, Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam • Phili Taylor RELIGION • 2008 • HARD COVER • 491 PAGES With case studies on diverse religious practices. (VNM128, $99.99)
Monkey Bridge • Lan Cao LITERATURE • 1998 • PAPER • 260 PAGES The affecting novel a young girl's coming-of-age in Falls Church's Little Saigon in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. (VNM130, $15.00)
My Detachment • Tracy Kidder BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2005 • AUDIO CD An unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial Vietnam war. (VNM95, $29.95)
My Vietnam, Stories and Recipes • Luke Nguyen FOOD • 2011 • HARD COVER • 344 PAGES Starting in the north and ending in the south, Cooking Channel host Nguyen visits family and friends in all the country's diverse regions, is invited into the homes of local Vietnamese families, and meets food experts and local cooks to learn more about the diverse cuisine of Vietnam. Savor more than 100 regional and family recipes -- from Tamarind Broth with Beef and Water Spinach to Wok-tossed Crab in Sate Sauce -- and enjoy vibrant, stunning full-color photographs showcasing the beauty of Vietnam, its people, culture and food. (VNM148, $40.00)
The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall • Lawrence Osborne TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2007 • PAPER • 256 PAGES "It came upon me suddenly," Osborne reports, "like a mental disorder unknown to psychiatry: the desire to stop everything in normal life, to uproot, leave." And so he does, taking off on a six-month journey from Dubai to India, Bangkok, Bali and Papua New Guinea on the "Asian Highway." Osborne is not just interested in travel, but also in the reasons why we travel, layering his own entertaining adventures with ruminations on Shangri-La, The Grand Tour, the exotic and primitive. (SEA50, $20.00)
National Geographic Vietnam • Jim Sullivan GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 272 PAGES This guide to Vietnam, published in National Geographic's attractive visual style, features hundreds of photographs, full color maps, and good information on history, nature, culture and travel in Vietnam. (VNM93, $22.95)
No Man's Land • Duong Thu Huong LITERATURE • 2006 • PAPER • 460 PAGES An evocative novel from the author of Memories of a Pure Spring in which a Vietnamese woman is torn between her new life with a loving husband and her duty to the maimed soldier who has returned from the dead to claim her. (VNM107, $19.99)
Novel without a Name • Thu Huong Duong LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 304 PAGES From celebrated dissident author Duong Thu Huong, this lyrical novel tells the story of a North Vietnamese solider who clings to memories of his childhood in the hard times of war. (VNM23, $15.00)
The Other Side of Heaven, Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers • Truong Vu • Le M. Khue • Wayne Karlin ANTHOLOGY • 1995 • PAPER • 420 PAGES Writers from both sides of the Vietnam War have contributed to this anthology, which offers insight into understanding the divided nation. It's also a good opportunity to read contributions by writers not generally translated into English. (VNM42, $19.95)
Patriots, The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides • Christian G. Appy HISTORY • 2004 • PAPER • 574 PAGES These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the history of the Vietnam conflict, from its origins in the 1940s to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and ordinary citizens are included. (VNM129, $20.00)
Phase Line Green, The Battle for Hue, 1968 • Nicholas Warr HISTORY • 1999 • PAPER • 255 PAGES A powerful and personal account of a U.S. Marine's experience in the Battle of Hue, a brutal, month-long battle to capture a strategically important North Vietnamese citadel. Nicholas wrote this account in 1983, 15 years after the events described. Available in this print-on-demand edition only. (VNM36, $19.00)
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos • Peter Davidson FIELD GUIDE • 2009 • PAPER • 144 PAGES Two hundred and fifty-two of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia's most interesting and spectacular birds are featured in this concise and easy-to-use guide, with each illustrated in full colour with key information on ID, habitat and distribution. (SEA74, $19.95)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia • Morten Strange FIELD GUIDE • 2003 • PAPER • 40 PAGES This compact guide to the birds of Southeast Asia (including the Philippines and Borneo), features color photographs of 700 species with a concise description and distribution map for each bird. Introductory chapters cover birding in the region, seasonality, biogeography, and popular locations. (SEA39, $38.95)
Pimsleur Quick & Simple Vietnamese • Pimsleur Language Method LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • 2005 • AUDIO CD Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Vietnamese, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. The Pimsleur method emphasizes the use of listening skills without reading materials (so there isn't a book to follow along). It's advertised as "Totally audio: hear it, learn it, speak it." (VNM81, $19.95)
Platoon, Special Edition • Oliver Stone 2005 • DVD Oliver Stone's semi-autobiographical masterpiece depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War in gritty realism through the eyes of a young recruit. This special edition features commentary by Stone and the film's military supervisor as well as a documentary and a photo gallery. (VNM98, $14.98)
The Quiet American • Phillip Noyce 2003 • DVD A subtle and beautiful adaptation of Graham Greene's novel. Michael Caine stars as Thomas Fowler, a British journalist stationed in Vietnam in the 1950s, on the cusp of the Vietnam War. His friendship with the seemingly quiet American Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) takes a turn for the dangerous when Pyle falls in love with Fowler's young Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen), and his political motives become clear. (VNM59, $29.99)
Reporting Vietnam, American Journalism 1959-1975 • Ward Just ANTHOLOGY • 2000 • PAPER • 858 PAGES A riveting selection of contemporary newspaper and magazine reports and books by American journalists. This paperback edition draws from the original two-volume Library of America hardcover edition. (VNM77, $35.00)
River Road to China, The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73 • Milton Osborne EXPLORATION • 1999 • PAPER • 247 PAGES An excellent modern account of a 19th-century French expedition 4,000 miles from Vietnam and Cambodia into unknown regions of China in search of the source of the Mekong. With a selection of 19th-century engravings and color illustrations from the expedition. Originally published in 1975. (SEA29, $16.95)
Rough Guide Vietnam • Jan Dodd GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 568 PAGES This practical guide in the excellent British series includes an excellent historical and cultural overview. (VNM103, $21.99)
Sacred War, Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam • William J. Duiker HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 256 PAGES A history of the Vietnam War, from the perspective of North Vietnam. Bolstered by new research, quotes, and contemporary Vietnamese documents, this books provides a compelling complement to the American narrative of the war. (VNM106, $48.25)
The Second Indochina War, A Concise Political and Military History • William S. Turley HISTORY • 2008 • PAPER • 301 PAGES In this thorough, scholarly history of the Vietnam War, Turley's familiarity with Vietnamese-language materials allows for a balanced analysis. (VNM139, $29.95)
Southeast Asia in the New International Era • Clark Neher HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 288 PAGES A good general history of the entire region and its place in the world. Written by a seasoned scholar, the book is now in its third edition. (SEA17, $39.00)
Southeast Asia, A Concise History • Mary Somers Heidhues HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A lively, illustrated history of Southeast Asia, covering the politics, economics, society and culture of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. With 131 black-and-white illustrations and 11 maps. (SEA26, $19.95)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down • Anne Fadiman CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1998 • PAPER • 352 PAGES The title refers to the Hmong explanation for seizures. It's the story of a child with epilepsy, the daughter of Hmong refugees in California and a tragedy wrought by cultural mistranslation. Fadiman, the editor of American Scholar, got to know her loving family and the hard-working doctors that cared for Lia, and gracefully documents the clash between best interests. It's a sympathetic look at the Hmong culture, history and worldview that reveals much about ours as well. (VNM31, $15.00)
Street Without Joy • Bernard B. Fall HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 408 PAGES A vivid account of the French defeat in Vietnam, originally published in 1961. (VNM18, $27.95)
The Tale of Kieu, Bilingual Edition • Huynh Thong LITERATURE • 1987 • PAPER • 211 PAGES A masterpiece of Vietnamese literature, written in the early 19th-century by a Vietnamese ambassador to the Chinese court. This edition, translated and annotated by Huynh Sanh Thong, renders the narrative poem in modern blank verse. The much-celebrated poem, based on a Chinese novel, shows East Asian classical and Vietnamese folk influences. (VNM22, $22.00)
To Hanoi and Back, The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973 • Wayne Thompson • Richard P. Hallion HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 360 PAGES A detailed history of the American air campaign in the Vietnam War. (VNM57, $31.95)
To What End? • Ward Just HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 208 PAGES Reports from Vietnman in 1966-1967 by the Washington Post reporter and novelist, reissued on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. (VNM73, $14.00)
A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia • J.M. Barwise • Nicholas J. White HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 352 PAGES • COMING IN MARCH A compact history of the region, including the Khmer and other ancient kingdoms that produced Borobudur, Angkor and other architectural marvels. The authors include the history of diverse nations from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia, to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. (SEA36, $14.95)
Travels in the East • Donald Richie • Stephen Mansfield TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2007 • PAPER • 180 PAGES The unmatchable, exuberant Richie (who winningly writes "New countries are like new clothes") muses on Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, Korea, and Japan in this kaleidoscope of travel essays. (ASA63, $14.95)
Two Cakes Fit for a King, Folktales from Vietnam • Nguye Nguyen LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 128 PAGES For centuries, Vietnamese have sustained the history of their nation, both actual and mythic, through their folklore. These stories, passed from generation to generation, contain not only the national saga, but also fundamental cultural values that Vietnamese hold dear. Some stories, like "A Daughter's Love, " are imaginative accounts of early Vietnamese history. Others, like "The Anger of the Waters" and the title story, "Two Cakes Fit for a King, " provide colorful explanations of the world and how it works. "The Story of Watermelon Island" offers readers a glimpse of the traditional agrarian values and way of life that are the foundation of Vietnamese society. Imaginative and captivating, funny and sometimes tragic, these tales have remained popular and culturally significant for Vietnamese, young and old, for hundreds of years. The intricate illustrations draw on centuries-old painting styles and on natural imagery and everyday life in Vietnam. (VNM119, $16.95)
Up Country • Nelson Demille LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 880 PAGES A Tom Clancy-Style military thriller, rich in historical detail, geography and intrigue. Demille, a Vietnam veteran, follows the fate of his career army protagonist (also the main character in "The General's Daughter") on a trip back in 1997. (VNM46, $7.99)
Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War • Ted Morgan HISTORY • 2010 • HARD COVER • 752 PAGES The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides an absorbing account of the decisive 1954 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu and how it set the stage for American involvement in Vietnam. (VNM144, $40.00)
Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954-1974 • Merle L. Pribbenow HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 512 PAGES This translation of the 1994 official history of the People's Army of Vietnam provides a detailed account of two decades of struggle and remarkable insight into the North Vietnamese view of the war. (VNM145, $49.95)
A Viet Cong Memoir • Truang Nhu Tang BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1986 • PAPER • 350 PAGES A candid, revealing story of a revolutionary life, wonderfully free of cant. This telling memoir by the former Viet Cong Minister of Justice, now living in exile in Paris, gives a detailed report from the inside, as much about his life as about the Viet Cong campaign. Not only does it provide a unique perspective on the war, the book is a compelling personal tale. (VNM11, $15.95)
Vietnam at War • Mark Philip Bradley HISTORY • 2010 • HARD COVER • 233 PAGES A balanced and concise history that approaches the wars in Vietnam, their causes and ramifications from a Vietnamese perspective. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the significance of the Vietnam War to the development of the nation. (VNM140, $29.95)
Vietnam Rising, Culture and Change in Asia's Tiger Cub • William Ratliff HISTORY • 2008 • PAPER • 125 PAGES From Vietnam's recent acceptance into the World Trade Organization to its post-Vietnam War reform and socialist ideals, this brief overview examines the cultural, political, and economic changes at work in Vietnam. Useful for those evaluating potential relationships with Vietnamese businesses or investments in the country's economy, this study explores matters of credit, private enterprise, monetary policy, and the role of globalization. (VNM127, $15.95)
Vietnam Today: A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads • Mark Ashwill • Thai Ngoc Diep CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2004 • PAPER • 188 PAGES A practical guide to politics, culture and getting along in contemporary Vietnam geared for both business people and travelers. With short chapters on geography, demographics, politics, economy and business, history and changes since the war, cultural differences and tips for working with the Vietnamese, nd how the Vietnamese view us. (VNM80, $27.95)
The Vietnam War, A Concise International History • Mark Atwood Lawrence HISTORY • 2008 • HARD COVER • 144 PAGES An admirably focused history of the war, its beginnings, and global consequences. (VNM105, $18.95)
Vietnam, A History • Stanley Karnow HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 768 PAGES This blockbuster book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is history at its best: masterfully researched, well written and comprehensive. In this magisterial work, Karnow draws on interviews and archives to put the ordeal of the Vietnam war into perspective, offering clarity, analysis and focus. (VNM10, $22.00)
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Map • Nelles 2010 • MAP A convenient, double-sided map of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,500,000, with city maps of Hanoi, Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh City, Luang Prabang, and Phnom Penh. Includes the eastern portion of Thailand and Bangkok. (SEA75, $13.95)
Vietnam, The Necessary War • Michael Lind HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 314 PAGES A reinterpretation of America's most disastrous military conflict by Michael Lind, a political journalist and fellow at the New America Foundation. Lind challenges received wisdom, suggesting that the disaster in Indochina was a just and winnable war. (VNM74, $20.99)
Vietnam: A Natural History • Eleanor J. Sterling • Martha Maud Hurley • Le Duc Minh • Joyce Ann Powzyk NATURAL HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 448 PAGES A serious, thorough study of habitats, wildlife, human influence and conservation in Vietnam, featuring a handful of color photographs (VNM85, $22.00)
Vietnamese, Start Speaking Today • Language/30 LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • AUDIO CD A 90-minute crash course in Vietnamese with a CD and phrasebook packaged in a vinyl sleeve. Geared for travelers, the course follows the foreign service method -- which focuses on dialogues and useful sentences instead of individual words. In each case, an English phrase is spoken once, and repeated in Vietnamese twice. Topics include introductions, transportation, business and health. (VNM58, $24.95)
The Village • Bing West HISTORY • 2002 • PAPER • 400 PAGES West explores a lost footnote of the Vietnam War, a Combined Action Platoon of Marines who lived with and fought alongside Vietnamese villagers, forging an unexpected bond and demonstrating another way the war could have been fought. (VNM146, $7.99)
War Letters, Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice • Robert Kenner HISTORY • 2002 • DVD Produced for PBS, this hour-long documentary dramatizes letters home from the American Revolution to Persian Gulf, Directed by Robert Kenner and narrated by Joan Allen, Edward Norton, Bill Paxton, Giovanni Ribisi, David Hyde Pierce among others. (WAR77, $19.98)
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam • Harold G. Moore HISTORY • 2004 • PAPER • 480 PAGES This devastating account of the battles against the North Vietnamese at the Ia Drang Valley, November, 1965, presents a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge--and dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. (VNM116, $18.00)
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places • Jay Wurts • Le Ly Hayslip BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1993 • PAPER • 368 PAGES The author recounts her personal experiences of the horrors of war. She maintains a profoundly humane perspective throughout her ordeals, never succumbing to the temptations of blame, self-pity or cynicism. It's a moving account of life in a Viet Cong village, struggling to survive in the Saigon black market and adjustment to life in the United States, where she founded the East Meets West Foundation. (VNM41, $17.00)
A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond ANTHOLOGY • 2005 • PAPER • 310 PAGES These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. Featuring selections from Jan Morris, Pamela Logan and Alison Wright. (ASA49, $17.95)
Zen Keys, A Guide to Zen Practice • Thich Nhat Hanh RELIGION • 1994 • PAPER • 198 PAGES An overview of Zen Buddhism as practiced in Vietnam, including 43 koans from the 13th century Vietnamese master, Tran Thai Tong, and an opening chapter on daily life in a Zen monastery. Originally published in 1974. (VNM72, $14.95)

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