Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier

This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of thewars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940suntil his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in1975. Nguy n C ng Lu n was born and raised in small villages near Ha Noi. Hegrew up knowing war at the hands of the Japanese, the French, and the Viet Minh.Living with wars of conquest, colonialism, and revolution led him finally to movesouth and take up the cause of the Republic of Viet Nam, exchanging a life ofvictimhood for one of a soldier. His stories of village life in the north are everybit as compelling as his stories of combat and the tragedies of war. This honest andimpassioned account is filled with the everyday heroism of the common people of hisgeneration.