| Assignment Viet Nam Contributor(s): Samaranayake, J. F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1463675623 ISBN-13: 9781463675622 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6" W x 9" (0.47 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Opening with a passing mention of the South Vietnamese government troops firing upon unarmed Buddhist protestors in the central city of Hue in May 1963, Ceylonese journalist J. F. Samaranayake recounts his first-hand experiences and exchanges (1959-1963) with the Viet Nam Press and other Vietnamese interlocutors in Saigon and from Colombo, Ceylon. This zenith of his journalistic career began spiraling downhill even as the November 1963 coup leading to the arrest and assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem occurred. Dejected and disillusioned, he retrospectively laments that, perhaps, he may have acted as if he "were more Vietnamese than the Vietnamese people." |