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Bamboo Palace by Christopher Kremmer
 Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos Bamboo Palace begins as a travelogue. turns into a mystery and ultimately redefines a nation's history, as Christopher Kremmer journeys through Laos to uncover one of Indochina's darkest secrets. For decades, the inscrutable leaders of the Lao People's Democratic Republic have deflected questions about the fate of the Lao royal family, traditional rulers of the 600-year-old Kingdom of the Million Elephants and the White Parasol, deposed by leftist guerillas in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Now, the author of the international bestseller The Carpet Wars cuts through the bamboo curtain to reveal the shocking truth. |
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Sixteen Years in the Land of Death by Nakhonkham Bouphanouvong
Revolution and Reeducation in Laos Sixteen Years in the Land of Death: Revolution and Reeducation in Laos, is the account of the life of Nakhonkham Bouphanouvong, a Lao man who survived incarceration from 1975 to 1991 in the communist run reeducation camps located in the province of Huaphan in northeastern Laos. During that time he suffered through hard labor, torture and near starvation along with many other high-ranking Royal Lao government and army officials, many of whom did not live to tell of their own experience. Prior to his imprisonment Nakhonkham endured three decades of civil war in Laos. He left the capital city of Vientiane and his life as a student behind in 1945 to join the nationalistic Lao Issara movement where he worked as a soldier, propagandist and writer through the 1950's. Nakhontham later witnessed the Lao Issara's transformation in eastern Laos into a fully-fledged communist revolution. |
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Over the Misty Mountain by Karl Gustav Izikowitz
A Journey from Tonkin to the Lamet in Laos Over the Misty Mountain, A Journey from Tonkin to the Lamet in Laos was first published in 1944 in Swedish and never before translated into English. Unfortunately, it has therefore remained an unknown work in most scholarly circles. This book preceded Izikowitz classic ethnographic work on the Lamet, a Mon-Khmer speaking people in Laos. Izikowitz, a keen observer, traveled in the late 1930's and studied the various tribal groups on his way to the Lamet and back. He recorded their customs, belief systems, ceremonies, relationships as well as their agriculture, partly based on slash and burn cultivation. This more general work is rich in details, for example on the French administrative system in those remote areas. The work is enriched by 138 period photographs. |
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Another Quiet American by Brett Dakin
Stories of Life in Laos A sympathetic yet irreverent glimpse into life in one of the few remaining communist nations. You won't find Laos on many world records. It's not the smallest nation in the world and it's certainly not the largest. It's not the poorest or richest either. It is however, the most heavily bombed country in history. During the Vietnam War, the US dropped moor ordinance on Laos alone than it did during the whole of WWII. In 1975, the communists took over, and the world forgot about this landlocked nation that for centuries has been just a political pawn. Two decades later, Laos re-opened its borders, and Brett Dakin was hired as a consultant at the government's tourism authority; a sudden leap from his Princeton classrooms to Laos' corridors of power and living rooms of the poor. Here, among others, you'll meet the author's boss, a wealthy general whose power and reputation scares his countrymen; a prince with connections to the French colonial past, now struggling to survive under the communists; an American pilot who fought during the war and never returned; and a group of rich Lao twenty-somethings who have all the money they could want, but cannot find contentment in their homeland. |
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Lao Roots by Fleur Brofos Asmussen
Fragments of a Nordic-Lao Family Saga Lao Roots. In 1990 the author travelled to Laos to find her relatives still living there. For years she and her sister had sought the descendants of their grandmother, Sao Boun Ma. These Laotian relatives were finally found in Vientiane. The search revealed a complex and fantastic story. The Norwegian grandfather, Peter Hauff, who died in 1951, left a long account of his experiences as a trader in Indo-China (1890-1928) with a number of hitherto unknown photographs of Laos and Cambodia/Vietnam. Nowhere did he mention the Laotian mother of one of his daughters, and the Vietnamese mother of the other. Shortly after his son drowned and the premature death in Laos of his equally fantastic Swiss business partner, Hans Faesh, the energetic Peter Hauff left for Europe in 1905 with his two daughters. He married a woman probably not of his choice, and returned to Vietnam to continue trading. He eventually settled in France, and died there, never having seen again his Sao Boun Ma whom he described in a note shortly before his death as "the honest and faithful". |
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Air America by Christopher Robbins
From World War II to Vietnam The Explosive True Story of the CIA's Secret Airline Begins like a spy novel and ends by raising the hair on your head ... Here is the incredible inside story of the world's most extraordinary covert operation - Air America, a secret airline run by the CIA, which at its height had the biggest commercial airfleet in the world. Air America flew the missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Chennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WW2 to two brutal decades cruising over the bomb-savaged jungles of Southeast Asia. The pilots dared all and did all - a high-rolling, fast-playing bunch of has-beens and hellraisers whose motto was "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime." Whether it was delivering food and weapons or spooks and opium, Air America was the one airline where you didn't need reservations - just a hell of a lot of courage and a willingness to fly to the bitter end. |
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Tragedy in Paradise by Charles Weldon
A Country Doctor at War in Laos A true story of warfare, adventure and humanitarian assistance. "One of the wounded was the soldier whom the Pathet Lao had shot and knifed open. This man was hit by six bullets. One grazed his head; two went through the left arm; one hit his left flank; and two went through his left thigh, shattering the bone. two loops of intestine were protruding from a long, gaping wound in his abdomen. To my amazement, he was still conscious and responsive to questioning." "We irrigated the intestines with saline solution and cleansed them as well as we could. After stuffing the protruding bowel back into the abdominal cavity, we strapped the wound closed with tape, and applied a dressing. With his other wounds bandaged, a traction splint on the shattered leg, and IV fluids containing massive doses of antibiotics going into his veins, he asked for a cigarette!" |
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The Ravens by Christopher Robbins
Officially the war in Laos did not exist. Both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there. In fact, thousands of North Vietnamese were invading the country and pouring down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to the South, and the Americans were fighting a vigorous war against them from the air, and on the ground via the CIA-led Meo (Hmong) tribesmen. The Ravens were the American pilots, all volunteers, who flew through heavy groundfire to identify targets and call in air-strikes. Their mission was top secret. They wore no uniform and carried no identification. Mavericks to a man, they accepted the murderous casualty rates in return for a life of unrestricted flying and fighting. They did their job with extraordinary skill and crazy courage, and with a zany humor all of their own. This is their story ... |
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Mother's Beloved, Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong
Mother's Beloved, Stories from Laos by Outhine Bounyavong Translated by Daniel Duffy A collection of fourteen heartwarming short stories by Outhine Bounyavong, a well-known author of contemporary Lao fiction. Coming of age during the turbulent period of the sixties and seventies in Laos, Bounyavong wrote his earliest stories as a form of social commentary and criticism. His recent stories can be interpreted as a commentary on the changing state of Laos, environmental concerns, and the wisdom of villagers and the value of their traditional customs. Together, they provide valuable insights into the changing state of Lao society. |
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Stalking the Elephant Kings - In Search of Laos by Christopher Kremmer
Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos. Stalking the Elephant Kings tells the story of a Southeast Asian revolution and its tragic consequences. Based on extensive travel inside Laos and exhaustive research abroad, the book reveals new details of the fate of one of Asia's oldest monarchies. A must for both student and traveler, it provides a contemporary portrait of a country which will play a key role in the future of Indochina, as well as a glimpse of its secret history. |
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