num_pages: 652
description: From a covert 1945 OSS mission to enlist the aid of Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon in 1975 this book gathers the narratives of over sixty U.S. citizensmedics diplomats clerks housewives spies grunts and generalswho lived worked and fought in Southeast Asia during America's thirty-year involvement in Vietnam. The result is a work of visceral immediacy and tragic sweep.
language: English
title: Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam, 1945-1975
publisher: Da Capo Press