| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Sandra C. Taylor. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. x, 170. $29.95.

Considering that at least ninety percent of all studies of the Vietnam War in English concentrate on the Americans, one should never ignore a book on the Vietnamese experience. Also, among the publications about Vietnamese protagonists that do exist, female combatants have received scant attention indeed. Sandra C. Taylor's book aims to address this lacuna. 1

Over a number of visits to Vietnam, Taylor interviewed scores of female veterans of the twenty-year-long struggle against forces of the Republic of Vietnam and the United States. These encounters clearly moved the author deeply and provide the main justification for the book being published at all. Of most value are her interviews with southern rural women, who faced incredibly diverse challenges month after month and often had to devise their own solutions with no help from higher echelons. These quiet achievers at the village level also tended to be ignored by communist agitprop cadres (mostly male), who preferred to portray women as either martyrs to enemy violence or lofty national heroes. . . .

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