Death in the Rice Fields [Paperback]

Peter Scholl-Latour (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 383 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (April 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140086420
• ISBN-13: 978-0140086423
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,585,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommendable, March 11, 2002

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F. Forke (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death in the Rice Fields (Paperback)

One of the best books I ever read. If you want to to know the truth about Vietnam, this book ist a must. Peter Scholl-Latour was present in Vietnam from the French intervention to the Chinese episode. He writes very cromprehensive and with great knowlegde. Partuculary exciting is that it is a report of his personal experiences, without pretending to be a political or military scientificly valid study. That makes it more accessable to non-political expert readers. Of course, he is a worldwide acknowledged expert.
Particulary for american readers, I think this book from a non-american is important to read. Often, the american vision about the Vietnam war is somehow distorted.
So it is a very exciting and informative lecture.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent perspective, November 4, 2009

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A. Dominguez Burgos - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEATH IN THE RICE FIELDS (Hardcover)

Scholl-Latour shows here a profound understanding of that region. I have read other books of his in German and I find it is a pity there are no more translations of his work. The English speakers could learn a lot from his perspective: a conservative, but a very very different conservative from what you see in the US.
Scholl-Latour knows the regions he reports about for a long time, he has been there, he has lived there, he has listened and listened to all kind of groups there.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rare on the scene look at Vietnam after WWII..., January 5, 2009

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Van A. Treska "Al Treska" (San Diego) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEATH IN THE RICE FIELDS (Hardcover)

Along with Howard Simpson's book Tiger in the Barb Wire and Bernard Fall's Street Without Joy, this is one I always recommend in discussions about Vietnam before the American era. Scholl-Latour is on the scene in many French actions against the Viet Minh. This book provides far more insight to Vietnam than what I have seen written by Americans who fought in Vietnam.