Thư từ Eric Panthou (Paris, Pháp)

Dear Tran Kien Quoc

As you see in this list, 'The red earth' was choosen by the best specialists about Viêt-nam history in the top ten Vîet-nam book.

So, we are proud to publish this testimony in two weeks in France.

Thuesday, I will be in a conference about the book at the university of Clermont-Ferrand. I think, many people will be here.

I will mail you when the book will be finish to be print, I think in 10 or 14 days.

Best regard

Eric Panthou

from France

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Objet : [Vsg] top ten Vietnam book list summary

Wow, thanks so very much for all the great suggestions!  The student going to Vietnam will be a bookworm expert!  Here's the summary.  Best wishes, David

Adams, Kathleen and Kathleen Gillogly, eds. Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

Ashwill, Mark. Vietnam Today

Bao Ninh, The Sorrow Of War (1991)

Bass, Thomas A. The Spy Who Loved Us (2009)  

Biggs, David.  Quagmire (on the Mekong Delta).

Buttinger, Joseph. The Smaller Dragon (1958)

Chan, Sucheng. The Vietnamese-American 1.5 generation: Stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginning (1st 100 pages (97 to be exact))

Chivas-Baron, Clotilde. Three Women Of Annam(1925)

Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind (don't bring it to Vietnam – it’s banned)

Duong Van Mai Elliott, Sacred Willow: Four Generations of a Vietnamese Family

Dutton, George, et. al. Sources of Vietnamese Tradition

Foreign Service Institute language book for Vietnamese: http://www.foreignserviceinstitute.com/learn-vietnamese/

Gainsborough, Martin. Vietnam Rethinking the State

Gellhorn, Martha. The Face of War

Get hold of a CD or two containing some of the more excellent examples of nhạc vàng, sung by a few of the more excellent singers. It also would enhance the student's social acceptability in VN if he or she could learn how to sing "Một Cõi Đi Về" (A title that I'm inclined to translate as "One Vast Region of Return...")

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American (1955)

Harms, Erik. Saigon’s Edge:  On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City

Haydon, Bill. Understanding Vietnam

Hayton, Bill. Vietnam Rising Dragon

Hervey, Harry. King Cobra (1932)

Hickey, Gerald Cannon. Kingdom In The Morning Mist (1988)

Jameson, Neil.  Understanding Vietnam

Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke

Koh, David. Wards of Hanoi

Le Luu, A Time Far Past

Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Lien-Hang Nguyen, Hanoi's War (2012)

 Linh Dinh, ed. Night, Again

Lockhart, Greg and Monique, The Light of the Capital

Michelin NEOS guide to Vietnam

Nguyen Huy Thiep, The General Retires and Other Stories

Papin, Philippe. History of Hanoi

Rubbo, Michael. “Sad Song for Yellow Skin” (film)

Sidel, Mark. Law and Society in Vietnam

Takeshi Keiko, Into A Black Sun (1968)

Taylor, Keith. The Birth of Vietnam 

Tran Tu Binh, Red Earth

Turse, Nick. Kill Anything That Moves

Vassal, Gabrielle. On And Off Duty In Annam (1910)

Vietnam, A Television History

Vu Trong Phung, Dumb Luck