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Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, presents a history of the war from the perspective of the Vietnamese communists.

It charts relations with Mo Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. It charts relations with Moscow and Beijing, showing how the involvement of the two major communist powers changed over time, and how the Vietnamese, despite their huge dependence on the Chinese and the Soviets, were most definitely in charge of their own decision making. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the many one-sided studies of the war, and presents a very interesting new perspective.

Published July 4th by Routledge first published October 18th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. But the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had hundreds of photographers of their own who worked in perilous conditions documenting every facet of the war.

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Others were self-taught civilians, many of whom anonymously sent their films to news agencies. Many of these photographs are rarely seen, even in Vietnam. When photojournalist Doug Niven first went to Hanoi, he expected to see the war from the Vietnamese perspective, but to his surprise, there was not even a North Vietnamese book on the war. There were a few Vietnamese publications with pictures from the war, but not a single comprehensive attempt to put all the war images together.

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So in the early s, he started tracking down the surviving photographers. Niven started off with the official channels and the government news agency.

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He then worked through a large photographers association and eventually, by word of mouth, he came across photographers who served in the war. Nine out of ten Vietnamese photographers were killed in the field, taken by bullets and bombs, while others succumbed to dysentery and malaria.

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Many of the surviving ones he interviewed didn't even know each other. Many photographers worked in very difficult and dangerous conditions. Some photographers mixed their chemicals in little teacup saucers, and often they would process only half a roll at a time because they did not want to risk ruining the entire roll. For flash photography, some used gunpowder from rifle cartridges and set a match to it.

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A guerrilla in the Mekong Delta paddles through a mangrove forest defoliated by Agent Orange. The Americans denuded the landscape with chemicals to deny cover to the Viet Cong. The Americans in turn usually thought of their Vietnamese foes as being either Viet Cong guerrillas or North Vietnamese regular troops. Although this distinction between guerrillas and conventional soldiers does not entirely reflect how the Vietnamese either thought of themselves or operated, it became widespread.

This perception also determined how most westerners understood — and continue to think about — the communist forces in the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong fought as guerrillas or regular soldiers according to the circumstances.

Unseen Pictures of The Vietnam War From The Other Side

In they won a notable victory at Ap Bac in a set-piece battle with South Vietnamese forces. But, perhaps inevitably, the Viet Cong are better remembered for guerrilla-style operations such as ambushes, sabotage, and assassinations conducted against the Americans and their allies. At times the Viet Cong also engaged in extortion and inflicted terror on South Vietnamese peasants, and there is evidence of Viet Cong massacres of local Catholic and Montagnard communities.

The camp, capable of holding up to troops, was searched and then destroyed. The disposal of Viet Cong rice supplies; a paper detailing the problems encountered by Bravo Company, 1RAR, and suggestions for a more efficient method of disposal, 10 April The other side Viet Cong soldiers from D Battalion.