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These guys seemed to know everything, the whole vo-cabulary of worldly gain and progress, so I paid extra attention during their memoir-brainstorming sessions, listened closely to their debates over how much the reading public did or did not need to know about their tortured childhoods in order to understand why they needed to make so much money in the manner in which they made it.
NPR: Chapter 1
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He retells the terrible siege of Dien Bien Phu earlier that spring, when the North Vietnamese commander, Vo Ngu-yen Giap, made thousands of porters drag artillery into the hills surrounding a French base, from where they pounded the foreign army.
ECONOMIST: The first Vietnam war
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According to a Los Angeles Times report, that's the travel nightmare story Sandy Valdivieso and her husband, Triet Vo, will get to tell for the rest of their lives.
CNN: Travel nightmare: couple flown to wrong continent