The Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the Resistance

by Patricia Norland

Book Overview

The Saigon Sisters offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lyc e and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through US involvement and life after war ends in 1975.

Tracing the lives of nine women, The Saigon Sisters reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501749730
• ISBN13: 9781501749735
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher