Asian hanging lanterns from Indochine

Bobbie Kalman A title from the LANDS, PEOPLES AND CULTURES series which looks at the inhabitants of Vietnam. Introduces their families, homes, education, language and food, with colour photographs providing an insight into the lives of small highland tribes and ethnic Chinese.

Robert Templer Images of the Vietnam War have proved to be among the most enduring of this century – the naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, bodies lying in the ditches of My Lai. These images and the subsequent myths that have surrounded Vietnam have stifled changes in the way it is seen. For many [...]

Emmanuel Guillon The art of Champa (central and southern Vietnam) thrived from the 2nd to the 9th centuries. It consists chiefly of Hindi and Buddhist deities, carved in high relief from sandstone. This book describes some 100 major sculptures housed in the Da Nang Museum and also provides a historical overview.

Neil Sheehan Amazon.co.uk Review This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, [...]

Philip Jones Griffiths (Photographer), Noam Chomsky First published in 1971, Philip Jones Griffiths’ account of the Vietnamese War was the outcome of three years’ reporting and is a detailed survey of the conflict. Showing us the true horrors of the war as well as offering a study of Vietnamese folk life, the author argues against [...]

Gabriel Kolko This work covers the difficult story of the United States’ intervention with the yet more complicated internal dynamic of the Vietnamese Revolution. It goes beyond the military, political and economic aspects of the war to explore in-depth causative factors leading to the end result.

David Chandler This text examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon by focusing on one of its key institutions, the secret prison outside Phnom Penh known by the code name “S-21″. More than a chronicle of the Khmer Rouge barbarism it is an examination of the psychological dimension of state-sponsored terrorism.

Michael Herr Amazon.co.uk Review If you’ve seen the movies Apocalypse Now and Platoon, in whose scripts Michael Herr had a hand, you have a pretty good idea of Herr’s take on Vietnam: a hallucinatory mess, the confluence of John Wayne and LSD. Dispatches reports remarkable front-line encounters with an acid-dazed infantryman who can’t wait to [...]

William Shawcross Good to see it is available once again. My dog-eared copy was bought from a street vendor in Ho Chi Minh City and lost in Hanoi before I was able to finish it. So I’m particularly glad to be able to get hold of a new copy. Brilliant book.(David).

David P. Chandler In the tragic recent history of Cambodia – a past scarred by a long occupation by Vietnamese forces and by the preceding three-year reign of terror by the brutal Khmer Rouge – no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. As secretary of the Central Committee of the [...]

Claude Jacques, Michael Freeman (Photographer) This pictorial record celebrates the cities and temples of Angkor in Southeast Asia. Ever since explorer and naturalist Henri Mouhot rediscovered the centre of Khmer civilization in Cambodia over a hundred years ago, the buildings, which date from the 9th to the 13th century, have become a source of great [...]

Tim Page (Photographer), William Shawcross (Introduction) “This book is an excellent collection of Tim Pages photographs, most have been seen before in other formats and have been widely used. The photography is excellent and brings across the human face of war like very few photographers can. Can’t say it enough – Excellent.” Amazon reviewer