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- Title
Nation-Building Narratives in Viet Nam: A Memoir on B-52s and Their Aftermath.
- Authors
Whitmore, John
- Abstract
In late 1972 (December 18-30), the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by the U.S. Air Force took place. Three weeks later, the American author arrived and witnessed the destruction and how the Vietnamese had already fitted this 'Battle of the B-52s' into their centuries old narrative of resistance to foreign invasion. This article recounts the people and situations that he met on this visit and the ways Vietnamese of all kinds viewed the battle as a great victory for their land, one reinforcing their sense of past, present, and future.
- Subjects
HANOI (Vietnam); HAIPHONG (Vietnam); VIETNAM; AIR warfare; B-52 bomber; AERIAL bombing; NATIONALISM &; collective memory; BOMBARDMENT of Hanoi, Vietnam, 1972; BOMBARDMENT of Haiphong, Vietnam, 1972
- Publication
East Asia: An International Quarterly, 2012, Vol 29, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1096-6838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12140-011-9154-z