Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.

In Vietnam, the former heart of colonial Indochina, there waits for us the picturesque town of Mitho, in the Mekong Delta and the immense metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon. Up the coast are the tropical beaches of Nha Trang and the city-port of Da Nang with its extraordinary museum. A little further north is Hue, the former capital of the golden years. The episode concludes amongst the paddy fields of the north, in the capital Hanoi,...

Examines the geography, history, and government of Vietnam, while highlighting its achievements in art, medicine and industry.

"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...

"A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous history. A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the history of a people and a nation with ancient roots which only took its current shape in the 19th century under French colonial rule, and its current name in 1945. Before that, Vietnam was known...

"The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965--the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly...

Story teaches people that if they can unite and work together, they will be able to do an impossible work such as they can empty the sea.

A history of the four decades leading up to the Vietnam War offers insights into how the U.S. became involved, identifying commonalities between the campaigns of French and American forces while discussing relevant political factors.