Once upon a time two good friends of mine published astonishing bullshit about the 4 thousand year march of Ha Noi and its Viet Nam to inevitable victory. Many other good friends of mine taught that story.
Hey, there was a war on. Moreover, every single researcher and teacher in English and French at least countenanced that tale no matter whether they supported Bangkok, Ha Noi, Moscow, Paris, Peiking, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Vientiane, or Washington.
It wasn't just commie bullshit. It was the only game in town. Even now, what you want to do, should you want to grasp the past of that nation and all the others is learn damn Vietnamese then live in Paris, where you can speak Vietnamese
with French people and French with Vietnamese while you rummage the attic of the Viet clans and their foreign friends. Or, better, stick with English and read the new history by my friend Christopher Goscha from Kansas, and Paris, and Quebec.
I have canoodled on the couch in my study with every history of Viet Nam I could carry home. But now Chris has wrote the one I would bring to meet the family.
Here is my second, of 3 written and maybe a dozen total to come, suggestion that you read his new history of Viet Nam for yourself. Please consider signing up for free to hear about my Viet Nam letters as they come out,
3 times each week. Consider patronizing all the readers at $50/year or supporting the enterprise at $250/year. Taking seriously, over and over again,
the books and authors that take Viet Nam seriously is like church or the theater, a charity for all concerned, those paying only their attention and as well those digging deep. The show will go on and you are welcome to help.
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Once upon a time two good friends of mine published astonishing bullshit about the 4 thousand year march of Ha Noi and its Viet Nam to inevitable victory. Many other good friends of mine taught that story.
Hey, there was a war on. Moreover, every single researcher and teacher in English and French at least countenanced that tale no matter whether they supported Bangkok, Ha Noi, Moscow, Paris, Peiking, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Vientiane, or Washington.
It wasn't just commie bullshit. It was the only game in town. Even now, what you want to do, should you want to grasp the past of that nation and all the others is learn damn Vietnamese then live in Paris, where you can speak Vietnamese
with French people and French with Vietnamese while you rummage the attic of the Viet clans and their foreign friends. Or, better, stick with English and read the new history by my friend Christopher Goscha from Kansas, and Paris, and Quebec.
I have canoodled on the couch in my study with every history of Viet Nam I could carry home. But now Chris has wrote the one I would bring to meet the family.
Here is my second, of 3 written and maybe a dozen total to come, suggestion that you read his new history of Viet Nam for yourself. Please consider signing up for free to hear about my Viet Nam letters as they come out,
3 times each week. Consider patronizing all the readers at $50/year or supporting the enterprise at $250/year. Taking seriously, over and over again,
the books and authors that take Viet Nam seriously is like church or the theater, a charity for all concerned, those paying only their attention and as well those digging deep. The show will go on and you are welcome to help.