a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, ranged against the French colonial powers, and the early affects of imported Western materialism - a best-seller when first published, and venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the '70s - inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American
- ISBN10 0907871003
- ISBN13 9780907871002
- Publish Date 22 April 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Eland Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 324
- Language English