| #5488587 in Books | Pantheon | 1991-10-23 | 1991-10-23 | Original language:English | 9.75 x6.50 x1.50l, | File type: PDF | 464 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Honest,likeable but unrevealing memoir|By Christopher Tricarick|Between October 1989 and January 1990, Justin Wintle spent three months travelling down the coast of Vietnam with an assortment of translators and drivers. His purpose was to learn about life in the Vietnam of that moment; however he was given almost no freedom to choose the people whom he would interview or the p|From Publishers Weekly|For three months in 1989-1990, British journalist Wintle traveled across Vietnam, getting to know Vietnamese from all walks in Hanoi, Hue, Danang, My Lai, Ho Chi Minh City and many lesser-known spots. His goal was "to furnish an alternativ
Our perceptions of Vietnam are heavily determined by American cinema. Films like "Platoon" and "Apocalypse Now" perpetuate a stereotyped image of the country as a place of war, as an assault course for the American psyche. But what is Vietnam really like? 15 years after the fall of Saigon, Justin Wintle went there to find out. Wintle's journey turned into a double combat: state propaganda had to be resisted as firmly as Western misconceptions - and the authorities were d...
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