Peace and Prisoners of War: A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War

American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's South Vietnamese allies, combined with a period of intense diplomatic negotiations conducted under the increasing reality that America had abandoned them.

In Peace and Prisoners of War, written in “real time,” Phan Nhat Nam provides a unique window into the harsh combat that followed America's withdrawa...