In 1945 Ho Chi Minh declared full independence for a united Vietnam, after long history of occupation from China and more recently France. It took 10 years for the French to completely leave the south, only to be gradually replaced by the Americans, who wanted to stop and reverse the spread of communism down from…
Tag: tragedy
Invisible Death
I used to travel through the labyrinth of the Kings Cross Underground twice a day before I left London in 1987. This was written after I returned, some months after the awful fire in which so many died. I am publishing this exactly 25 years after that tragedy. No evidence of that night of death.…
Unwrapping The World 