| Publication |
2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In late 1972 (December 18-30), the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in the
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by the U.S. Air Force took place. Three weeks
later, the American author arrived and witnessed the destruction and how the
Vietnamese had already fitted this 'Battle of the B-52s' into their centuries old narrative
of resistance to foreign invasion. This article recounts the people and situations that he
met on this visit and the ways Vietnamese of all kinds viewed the battle as a great
victory for their land, one reinforcing their sense of past, present, and future.
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