Vietnam’s Wars
V.G. Kiernan, 3 December 1981
Vietnam: The Revolutionary Path
by Thomas Hodgkin.
Macmillan, 433 pp., £25, July 1981,0 333 28110 1 Show More
by Thomas Hodgkin.
Macmillan, 433 pp., £25, July 1981,
Death in the Ricefields: Thirty Years of War in Indochina
by Peter Scholl-Latour, translated by Faye Carney.
Orbis, 383 pp., £6.95, September 1981,0 85613 342 6 Show More
by Peter Scholl-Latour, translated by Faye Carney.
Orbis, 383 pp., £6.95, September 1981,
“... It was a happy inspiration for a writer who has spent many years studying Africa to transport himself to the other end of the world and look at the evolution of a totally different society, though one equally in the end herded by Western guns into a new era. Hodgkin brings to his task a mind trained by long observation of pre-modern communities, and sensitive to the divergences and novelties pointing towards a dénouement far removed from anything to be found in Africa, south of Algeria at any rate ... ”
