Saigon (novel)
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Saigon is a novel by Anthony Grey
. Saigon follows the lives of three families, one American, one French, and the other Vietnamese, from the French colonial era
in the early 1920s until the last helicopter left Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War
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Anthony Grey
Anthony Grey OBE is a British journalist and author. As a journalist for Reuters he was detained for 27 months in China from 1967 to 1969...
. Saigon follows the lives of three families, one American, one French, and the other Vietnamese, from the French colonial era
French colonial empire
The French colonial empire was the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the colonial empire of France was the second-largest in the world behind the British Empire. The French colonial empire...
in the early 1920s until the last helicopter left Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
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