A BOOK WORTH READING

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robert_allen
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A BOOK WORTH READING

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A new book about the Vietnam War was introduced to readers last week. It is a memoir of a former South Vietnamese lieutenant general telling what he knows during the 25 years of war he was fighting against the Communists. In many pages are his comments concerning matters of politics and war with quotations and footnotes as in any book of a scholar.
The book is “The Twenty-Five-Year Century” by former Lieutenant-General Lam Quang Thi, published by thee University of North Texas.
General Thi and his older brother Lam Quang Tho enrolled in the newly established Vietnam National Army in 1950 after the March 8, 1948 Agreement signed by the late President Vincent Auriol of France and the then former King of Vietnam, H.M. Bao Dai, recognizing the independent Vietnam non-Communist state in the French Union. Thi and Tho attended the first class of the Vietnam Military School of Inter-Arms at Dalat and graduated as second lieutenant in 1951. Thi was assigned to the Artillery Corps.
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