From: thangolossus@gmail.com

(That's what the VN call what we call the Vietnam War)...

Here's the book I was talking about that I picked up on our road trip
from Saigon to Hanoi back in 2009. Read about the war from a young
north soldier's perspective.

https://ufile.io/gms5b

"That was the dry season when the sun burned harshly, the wind blew
fiercely, and the enemy sent napalm spraying through the jungle and a
sea of fire enveloped them, spreading like the fires of hell. Troops
in the fragmented companies tried to regroup, only to be blown out of
their shelters again as they went mad, became disoriented, and threw
themselves into nets of bullets, dying in the flaming inferno. Above
them the helicopters flew at treetop height and shot them almost one
by one, the blood spreading out, spraying from their backs, flowing
like red mud.

The diamond-shaped grass clearing was piled high with bodies killed by helicopter gunships. Broken bodies, bodies blown apart, bodies
vaporized.

No jungle grew again in this clearing. No grass. No plants.

“Better to die than surrender, my brothers! Better to die!” the
battalion commander yelled insanely; waving his pistol in front of
Kien he blew his own brains out through his ear. Kien screamed
soundlessly in his throat at the sight, as the Americans attacked with submachine guns, sending bullets buzzing like deadly bees around him.
Then Kien lowered his machine gun, grasped his side, and fell, rolling
slowly down the bank of a shallow stream, hot blood trailing down the
slope after him."



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