Giai Phong! The Fall and Liberation of Saigon
1976, First Edition. St. Martin's Press, New York. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved and still in the publisher's protective box. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 317 pages; Translated from the Italian by John Shepley. "Tizano Terzani slipped back into Saigon on April 27, 1975, determined to witness the end of Vietnam's most tragic war. What he experienced over the next 94 days - the last-ditch attempts at negotiation, you panic American evacuation, the precipitous conquest of Saigon, the anxious waiting for a bloodbath that never came, the first signs of transformation and reconstruction - is the subject of this book, a first-hand account of the revolutionary process in Vietnam during and after the collapse of American power." 317p, [32]p of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam -- History. Item #19350
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