The Dissilusioned

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It’s Edward Winslow’s first time back in Viet Nam since his departure shortly after the Fall of Da Nang in 1975.  He’s in Hanoi looking up an old friend from that time who is now the US Ambassador to Viet Nam.  His wife Lien has died and he’s looking for her sister.

Near the end of the war Captain Edward Winslow was captured by forces from the North.  At that time he was an advisor to the forces from the South.  He had developed a relationship with the leader of his captures, a Sgt. Chanh and his ability to speak Vietnamese was perhaps what saved him.

As the NVA neared Da Nang in 1975 the city began collapsing and the great exodus began.  By air from the airports and by sea from the Han river in downtown Da Nang and the beaches of My Khe the civilian and military population that worked with the Americans  began the journey south to the final disappearance of a country.

John W. Conroy has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as an embedded journalist as well as present day Viet Nam and Cambodia.  He is the author of the novels, The Girl from Tam Hiep and The Dissilusoned.