Our Ho

By Alan Trustman

The book identifies living OSS witnesses who were there at the time and the excellent BBC documentary interviewing them and showing Ho Chi Minh declaring Vietnamese independence. Can you imagine-Ho... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966182901
• ISBN13: 9780966182903
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Fisher Island Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent material...

The book does an excellent job at illuminating the reality of the roots of the Vietnam War.To the person who said: "ho, a killer in vietnam". I think you would be a killer too if your country was invaded by a foreign country as well. Over 3 million Vietnamese died in the Vietnam War, compared to 58,000 Americans. American soldiers killed over 1 million Vietnamese including the rape and torture of Vietnamese civilians, I'd be a killer too.

The CIA doesn't want you to read this book!

"Trac Van Lei, I knew him well." said a gentleman peering over my shoulder has I read OUR HO, by Alan Trustman in the courtyard of the Vietnam Pagoda in HoChiMinh City. Throughout my trip I was able to confirm many of the historical events contained in book. Trustman wrote a fictional story about true events that the government doesn't want us to know. I applaud his efforts and highly recommend this book for someone who wants to understand what was going on behind the scenes.

Should provoke renewed controversy over the Vietnam War

Having a strong interest in History, particularly in Military History from WWII onwards, the subject matter of this book interested me more than the actual writing itself. Nevertheless, I think the author chose an appropriate style in making a historical subject more accessible to the everyday reader. Using a combination of "fact and fiction", Alan Trustman adopts both first- and third-person narrative to present a biographical story about events leading up to the American involvement in the ground war in Vietnam. The human story of the protaganist and the supporting characters - fictitious and real - is made all the more compelling by the sinister aura of espionage. It certainly has all the ingredients for a compelling movie, which the author has experience in producing. The cuts between the first person and third person can be a little disorienting at first, but the reader can quickly settle into the rhythm. My only main criticism of this book would be the number of grammatical mistakes I came across. These are too frequent and can be distracting. Nevertheless, this is not a large enough problem to justify not reading this book. I would still recommend it for the astonishing story it purports about Ho Chi Minh's once friendly relationship with the US and the cover-up of this by the governement. I hope the author or publisher has someone edit it again before the next reprint.