Pic, who had already done three sympathetic documentaries on North Viet Nam, plus others on China and Cuba, had little trouble winning Viet Cong cooperation. After contacting N.L.F. representatives ...
WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...
“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam. These days, Broyles is best known for creating “China Beach,” co-writing “Apollo 13” and ...
Upcoming documentary series Vietnam: The War That Changed America tells the story of the conflict through those who survived it on both sides, according to the trailer Apple TV+ dropped for it ...
Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan’s Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam’s legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on ...