Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars

“For far too long, the Vietnamese voice has been absent. In this memoir, Luan sheds new light on that component of the war missing from the standard narrative. … [T]his memoir will be a worthy addition to any academic library interested in the tragedy of Vietnam. … Essential.” Choice, August 2012 “An important book. One of the most compelling and thoughtful ARVN [Army of the Republic of Viet Nam] accounts I have ever read… It is an unblinking, unflinching account… A very honest book, the author’s integrity comes through on every page.” David T. Zabecki, Maj. Gen., U. S. Army (ret.) “[The book] is a first-rate contribution to correcting the record. Readers who approach Luan with their hackles well down will find a new and refreshing view of what happened in Vietnam from the end of World War II through 1975. … [A]n essential read for those who seek to understand the complex tragedy of the wars of Vietnam.” - ARMY Magazine “This book is of incredible value for anyone interested in Vietnam–its history, politics, and culture–and in the American involvement with Vietnam. It is also a meditation of a Vietnamese patriot on the substance of patriotism during a time of civil war in a context of international alliances. Amid the terrors and harsh imperatives of war, the author’s is a rare voice of human decency.” - Olga Dror, H-War, November 2012

Nguyn Công Lun was born in 1937 and grew up in northern Viet Nam. Following the 1954 Geneva Agreement, which divided the nation in two, he moved south and enrolled in the Republic of Viet Nam Military Academy, then served in the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam until 1975. Incarcerated for 6 years 7 months in communist prison camps, he immigrated to the United States in 1990. He was an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War.