Echoes of the Mekong (River Delta, Viet Nam) - Hardcover

Peter A. Huchthausen; Thi Lung Nguyen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1877853410 ISBN 13: 9781877853418

Publisher: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1996

Synopsis

A former U.S. Navy riverboat commander in Vietnam and a young Vietnamese woman relate their experiences along the Mekong River during the war

About this title

About the Author:

Captain Peter A. Huchthausen, USN, (1939-2008) served aboard destroyers and commanded a river patrol section in Vietnam. After the war, he became an intelligence officer and served as the US Naval attache in Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union. He retired from the navy in 1990.

From AudioFile:

In 1967 a young American riverboat commander on the Mekong River rescued a wounded Vietnamese child, and thereafter both lives were quietly woven together. The book that results alternates his story with hers. Beginning in terror and heartache, like most stories of Vietnam, it ends, finally, in triumph, resulting in a refreshingly human yet candid assessment of American involvement there. Lloyd James starts to read Huchthausen's narrative with the crisp, assured voice of an American naval officer, but suspense takes over as the two lives intersect. Marguerite Gavin, by contrast, is intimate and quiet as she reads Nguyen and the various other voices of Vietnam. Both voices, like Vietnam itself, linger in our memory long after. P.E.F. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1877853410
• ISBN 13: 9781877853418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 165