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Today, most people remember the war as a series of terrible vignettes: Nick Ut's photo of the girl fleeing napalm, Ron Haberle's grisly images of the massacre at My Lai, or Eddie Adams' horrifying image of a streetside execution. How did the war look from the other side? Through the efforts of intrepid researchers Douglas Niven and Chris Riley, we are now able to see a different perspective on the ruinous decade-long conflict known to Americans as Vietnam, and to the Vietnamese as simply "the American War."



Today, most people remember the war as a series of terrible vignettes: Nick Ut's photo of the girl fleeing napalm, Ron Haberle's grisly images of the massacre at My Lai, or Eddie Adams' horrifying image of a streetside execution. How did the war look from the other side? Through the efforts of intrepid researchers Douglas Niven and Chris Riley, we are now able to see a different perspective on the ruinous decade-long conflict known to Americans as Vietnam, and to the Vietnamese as simply "the American War."
INTRODUCTION	Le Minh Truong Viet Cong guerrillas plant American-made mines upon learning that ARVN troops are approaching the Mekong Delta (1973) © National Geographic Society