Saigon by Grey, Anthony - 1983

London: Pan Books. Very Good. 1983. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Original price sticker to front cover, some foxing to spine and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Cathie Felstead. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 752 pages; An epic novel of Vietnam. Joseph Sherman first went there in 1925 as a young fifteen-year-old on a hunting expedition with his family. Through the next five decades he returned again and again, drawn back as much by the strange magic of the land as by Lan, the Vietnamese beauty he could never forget. He was there when the local people rose up against their French colonial masters, when the Legion fought their final battle at Dien Bien Phu, when American military advisors fired their first shots, and was aboard one of the last helicopters as they fled the fallen city of Saigon... .