Saigon Stories

A Hanoi school girl gives flowers to Uncle Ho. An 18 year old Mekong Delta farm boy joins the Viet Minh. A Member of Parliament of the South Vietnamese government protests against his own American-backed regime and then negotiates the surrender of his country, yet he knows nothing about the Viet Cong. A South Vietnamese army officer survives the war, re-education camp, and prison to build Vietnam's largest English language business newspaper. And an entrepreneur who hid inside her father's coat during the American bombing raids of Hanoi in the early '70s spends 30 minutes chatting with Hillary during President Bill Clinton's State Visit to Vietnam in 2000. These are some of the storytellers in Saigon Stories. This book does what most histories and modern descriptions of Vietnam have not done it brings real Vietnamese voices and experiences to what has happened and what is happening in the country that dented America's soul. More than 30 years after the end of the war, Vietnam remains a war and not a country to so many people in the West. These stories will change that perception for the better.