Saigon - Anthony Grey
Category: Military
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Tags: Military, Historical Fiction, Adults
Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarins daughter he cannot forget., Over five decades, Josephs life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigons most influential families, the French colonist Devrauxs, and the native Trans - and inevitably with Vietnams turbulent, war torn fate. He is there when the hatred of a million coolies rises against the French, and when the French Foreign Legion fights its bloody last stand at Dien Bien Phu.
