Voices from the Plain of Jars : life under an air war / edited by Fred Branfman ; with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers.
2013
DS557.A65 B67 2013
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Title
Voices from the Plain of Jars : life under an air war / edited by Fred Branfman ; with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers.
Author
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0299292231 (electronic bk.)
9780299292232 (electronic bk.)
9780299292249 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
029929224X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780299292232 (electronic bk.)
9780299292249 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
029929224X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Published
Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
40022471763
40022309987
40022309987
Call Number
DS557.A65 B67 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)841912702
Summary
During the Vietnam War, the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. The editor, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. This book was the result of that effort. When first published in 1972, this book was instrumental in exposing the bombing. In this expanded edition, the editor follows the story forward in time, describing the hardships that Laotians faced after the war when they returned to find their farm fields littered with cluster munitions - explosives that continue to maim and kill decades after the war.
Note
Previous edition: New York : Harper & Row, 1972.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword : Reflections on History's Largest Air War / Alfred W. McCoy
Textual Note
Introduction : Laos and the Advent of Automated War
Voices from the Plain of Jars
Epilogue: After the War Ended, 1975-Present
Appendix 1 : Complete Text and Supporting Documents of USIS Refugee Survey as Obtained by Congressman McCloskey
Appendix 2 : A Survey of Civilian Casualties among Refugees from the Plain of Jars, Laos / Walter M. Haney.
Textual Note
Introduction : Laos and the Advent of Automated War
Voices from the Plain of Jars
Epilogue: After the War Ended, 1975-Present
Appendix 1 : Complete Text and Supporting Documents of USIS Refugee Survey as Obtained by Congressman McCloskey
Appendix 2 : A Survey of Civilian Casualties among Refugees from the Plain of Jars, Laos / Walter M. Haney.
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Series
New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
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