Hanoi, Adieu - A Bittersweet Memoir Of French Indochina

"...narrative as strong and clear-eyed in discerning the political intricacies and their deadly consequences, as it is poetically evocative of the landscape and people that captured young Michel's heart. When, with his countrymen, he is forced to flee at the eleventh hour, it is the end of the French era in Vietnam. But...'for the Americans...it was just the beginning'.

...a gentle but expert lesson in the history of Indochina, making the complexities of cross-cultural and cross-ideological conflict comprehensible on the smallest of scales, that of one human being to another. Hanoi, adieu is an exquisitely beautiful and most beguiling story."