Research Catalog

Title

Voices from the Plain of Jars : life under an air war / edited by Fred Branfman ; with essays and drawings by Laotian Villagers.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Branfman, Fred
• McCoy, Alfred W.

Description

xix, 176 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.

Summary

During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on one million people. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort. When first published in 1972, this book was instrumental in exposing the bombing. In this expanded edition, Branfman follows the story forward in time, describing the hardships that Laotians faced after the war when they returned to find their farm fields littered with cluster munitions—explosives that continue to maim and kill today.

Series Statement

New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies

Subject

• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Aerial operations, American
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Laos > Jars, Plain of
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, Laotian
• Jars, Plain of (Laos)

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives
• Récits personnels.

Note

• Previous ed.: New York : Harper & Row, 1972.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780299292249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 029929224X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299292232 (e-book)
• 0299292231 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012032677

OCLC

• 808930385
• SCSB-11653959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library