To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians.

SANTOLI, Al.

$125.00

Item Number: 146833

New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1985.

First edition of this oral history of the Vietnam War from the author of ‘Everything We Had.’ Medium octavo, original red half cloth, illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Al Santoli on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nancy Etheredge.

"'To Bear Any Burden' is necessary to understand the most significant aspect of the Indochina wars: the human one. It is the voices of Vietnamese, Americans, Cambodians, Laotians, Montagnards, Hmongs. . . . Together, they represent the triumph of the human spirit. Indeed, 'To Bear Any Burden' is Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at Noon' of the 1980s, a more comprehensive and moving one" (Tran van Dinh, Author of 'Blue Dragon White Tiger: A Tet Story').