Saigon Calling: London 1963-75

I am 91. I had lived and experienced what's recorded in this book. Marcelino Truong had done an excellent job as his generation had seen, but without the feeling of an older generation watching and knowing that the so called 'free world" was no match vis a vis the motivated "international communist" determination to take over the globe. At least, the looser did give the winner a bloody nose. Good book. But a reader has to be involved with one side or the other to truly understand and appreciate it.

This book is an excellent young-adult's view of life as a Vietnamese refugee family starting over in England. Marcelino Truong's art and story are engaging and compelling. I enjoyed his books so much, I bought copies for friends.

Excellent book,lots of personal experience,objective and accurate. I love the final ghostly pictureof Ho chi Minh,the real culprit of the vietnamese misfortune..

The author seamlessly weaved his personal life with the Vietnam war and the youth culture of the 60s and 70s

After you finish reading this, you will want to hold the book. There are two parallel narratives, what happened in Vietnam and what the West thinks happened in Vietnam. The eye for detail is sharp... A must read for historians and all humanists.

Excellent follow up to the first volume of Truong's diptych on the Vietnam War. After a few formative years in Saïgon at the dawn of war, young Marcelino becomes a teenager in Swinging London, torn between the Pop Explosion and the conflict that ravages his father's country. There's depth and perspective in this Bildungsroman based on such stuff our 60s dreams were made on. A must-read for anyone who enjoyed Such a Lovely Little War.

The author skillfully told a story of his young self during the Vietnam War and how it affected his family.