Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life under an Air War

by Fred Branfman and Compiler Branfman

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029929224X
• ISBN13: 9780299292249
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.1"