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Author | : Marcelino Truong |
Publisher | : arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1551526913 |
In this sequel to the graphic memoir Such a Lovely Little War, young Marcelino and his family move from Saigon to swinging London in order to escape the war. There, he discovers an exciting new world of hedonists and hippies, while his mother slips further into her bipolar disorder, and Vietnam slips further into tragedy and heartbreak.
Author | : Marcelino Truong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781551526898 |
Sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies.
Author | : Marcelino Truong |
Publisher | : arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1551526484 |
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy’s father works for the South Vietnam embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called “Commies.” The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem’s personal interpreter; as the growing conflict between North and South intensifies, so does turmoil within Marco’s family, as his mother struggles to grapple with bipolar disorder. Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such a Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate study of the Vietnam war as seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese: a turbulent national history interwined with an equally traumatic familial one. Marcelino Truong is an illustrator, painter, and author. Born the son of a Vietnamese diplomat in 1957 in the Philippines, he and his family moved to America (where his father worked for the embassy) and then to Vietnam at the outset of the war. He earned degrees in law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and English literature at the Sorbonne. He lives in Paris, France.
Author | : Amanda C. Demmer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108804748 |
Few historians of the Vietnam War have covered the post-1975 era or engaged comprehensively with refugee politics, humanitarianism, and human rights as defining issues of the period. After Saigon's Fall is the first major work to uncover this history. Amanda C. Demmer offers a new account of the post-War normalization of US–Vietnam relations by centering three major transformations of the late twentieth century: the reassertion of the US Congress in American foreign policy; the Indochinese diaspora and changing domestic and international refugee norms; and the intertwining of humanitarianism and the human rights movement. By tracing these domestic, regional, and global phenomena, After Saigon's Fall captures the contingencies and contradictions inherent in US-Vietnamese normalization. Using previously untapped archives to recover a riveting narrative with both policymakers and nonstate advocates at its center, Demmer's book also reveals much about US politics and society in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Author | : John Fogerty |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316244562 |
The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly recognizable classics: "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Born on the Bayou," and more. Now he reveals how he brought CCR to number one in the world, eclipsing even the Beatles in 1969. By the next year, though, Creedence was falling apart; their amazing, enduring success exploded and faded in just a few short years. Fortunate Son takes readers from Fogerty's Northern California roots, through Creedence's success and the retreat from music and public life, to his hard-won revival as a solo artist who finally found love.
Author | : Nick Turse |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805086919 |
Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
Author | : Nghia M. Vo |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2011-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786486341 |
Saigon (since 1976, officially Hồ Chi Minh City but widely still referred to as Saigon) is the largest metropolitan area in modern Vietnam and has long been the country's economic engine. This is the city's complete history, from its humble beginnings as a Khmer village in the swampy Mekong delta to its emergence as a major political, economic and cultural hub. The city's many transitions through the hands of the Chams, Khmers, Vietnamese, Chinese, French, Japanese, Americans, nationalists and communists are examined in detail, as well as the Saigon-led resistance to collectivization and the city's central role in Vietnam's perestroika-like economic reforms.
Author | : Clément Baloup |
Publisher | : Humanoids, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1643378562 |
Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. These are their stories.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Published to provide British delegates with information for the Peace Conference.
Author | : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Asia |
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