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|a Foreword -- By way of a Preface -- Gloom over Saigon -- Ho Chi Minh City, August 1976 -- THE FIRST INDOCHINESE WAR -- Τhe French -- 'You are going the wrong way!': on board the Andus, Winter 1945 -- Buddha astride the tiger: Cochin China, Spring 1946 -- Uncle Ho's pact with the French: Haiphong, Spring 1946 -- The changing face of the war: Saigon, Spring 1951 -- The arrival of the aristocrat: Hanoi, Spring 1951 -- The fighting bishop: Phat Diem, 1951 -- Crossing the Chinese border: Lai Chau, 1951 -- The aftermath of Dien Bien Phu: Hanoi, Summer 1954 -- A visit to an outpost: Son Tay, Summer 1954 -- Machine-guns in the ricefield: Route 10, Summer 1954 -- The last engagement: Hung Yen, July 1954 -- An exchange of prisoners: Hai Thon, Summer 1954 -- Flight across the 17th parallel: on the road from Hanoi to Saigon, Summer 1954 -- Prelude to a new tragedy: Saigon, Summer 1954 -- THE SECOND INDOCHINESE WAR: the Americans: -- The Khmer smile: Cambodia, Spring 1965 -- War, American style: Vietnam, Spring 1965 -- Night patrol with the Marines: Vietnam, the 17th parallel, Autumn 1966 -- Victor Charlie keeps a low profile: the Kim Son Valley, Autumn 1966 -- The Manila Summit: Manila, Autumn 1966 -- Remembrance of things past: Laos, Autumn 1966 -- 'Destroyed in order to be saved': Vietnam, Autumn 1967 -- Ready for the revolution: Cambodia, Spring 1970 -- Dispersal and flight: Hue, Easter 1972 -- The Vietnamization of the coffins: Saigon, Spring 1972 -- Secret agents and opium smugglers: the Golden Triangle, Summer 1973 -- Pol Pot at the gates: Cambodia, August 1973 -- Prisoner of the Viet Cong: South Vietnam, August 1973 -- Troubled dreams in Bali: Bali, March 1975 -- The last days of Saigon: Saigon, April 1975 -- Indochina, mon amour: on the flight home, 26 April 1975 -- THE THIRD INDOCHINESE WAR: the Chinese -- Re-education and realignment: Ho Chi Minh City, August 1976 -- The Sparta on the banks of the Red River: Hanoi, August 1976 -- The enemy from the north: the northern border of Vietnam, August 1976 -- Scorpions in a bottle: Hanoi, August 1976 -- Earthquake in China: Peking, late August 1976 -- Conflict in Cambodia: the Thailand-Cambodia border, February 1979 -- Holding the Vietnamese tiger by the tail: Bangkok, February 1979 -- Reinforcements for the Khmer Rouge: Kyon Yai, late February 1979 -- Monks and cocktails in communist Laos: Vietiane, March 1979 -- The deserted royal way: Pakse, March 1979 -- Crisis on the Mekong: Vientaine, March 1979 -- Mulling over the war: Hong Kong, March 1979 -- The dragon and the polar bear: Peking, March 1979 -- Sihanouk's guest: Peking, March 1979 -- Wall-posters and western fashions: Peking, March 1979 -- The wheel turns full circle: Kunming, March 1979 -- Companions for thirty years: Pan Qi, March 1979 -- Marx and Mohammad: Kunming, March 1979 -- Epilogue in Europe: Paris-Bonn, August 1979 -- Chronology.
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