"Explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. [This book] explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way"--Provided by publisher.
After her liberation from a Japanese prison camp in Indochina at the end of World War II, Tian, a young French-Chinese girl, supports her family in Communist Saigon as a translator and travels to Biarritz to arrange for their escape.
Traces U.S. participation in the Vietnam War, with a look at the policies and people who influenced the escalating involvement of American troops beginning with the Roosevelt presidency and ending with the fall of Saigon.
An eager young American channels economic aid to a "third force", but when a British journalist intervenes his motives are suspect because the American takes his Vietnamese mistress away from him.
A portrait of Indochina since 1975 based on interviews and personal observations of the top players in Hanoi, Peking, Phnom Penh, Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, and Canberra.
Describes how refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos have struggled to build new lives in America and preserve their cultural heritage after escaping war and repression in their homelands.
Provides an objective and detailed chronology of the most significant military, political, and economic events of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between 1945 and 1990.
