A Portrait of Viet Nam

“… Throughout the Viet Nam War and after, we have known and learned very little about the Vietnamese people. Accounts of the war and the country have focused almost exclusively on American involvement. this book provides us with new information. Focusing his camera on the daily lives of ordinary people, Lou Dematteis documents a vibrant, rapidly canging country of over 72 million inhabitants – a gracious people who were once considered America’s most implacable foes and who now look forward to a future of friendship and cooperation.”