Red Plateau

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Southeast Asia
Cover of the book Red Plateau by John Edmund Delezen, John Edmund Delezen
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Author: John Edmund Delezen ISBN: 9780975498316
Publisher: John Edmund Delezen Publication: September 19, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: John Edmund Delezen
ISBN: 9780975498316
Publisher: John Edmund Delezen
Publication: September 19, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

two former enemies meet by accident and become close friends. one of the friends, a former north vietnamese soldier, asks the other, a former united states marine, to write his story. the story follows a path of extreme hardship and sadness as it tells of life in french colonial Indochina and the growing dissent of a people wanting to be free of french, japanese and finally american occupation. the soldier is conscripted into the army and spends over nine years fighting in what was south vietnam. the prose is poetic and paints with word pictures the futility and frustration conjured from close combat in rain forested mountains.

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two former enemies meet by accident and become close friends. one of the friends, a former north vietnamese soldier, asks the other, a former united states marine, to write his story. the story follows a path of extreme hardship and sadness as it tells of life in french colonial Indochina and the growing dissent of a people wanting to be free of french, japanese and finally american occupation. the soldier is conscripted into the army and spends over nine years fighting in what was south vietnam. the prose is poetic and paints with word pictures the futility and frustration conjured from close combat in rain forested mountains.

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