I Tim Page is the most celebrated photographer of the Vietnam War. After his years in the front line, he now lives quietly in Kent. * n 4 u v 0 .0 » 1 ', 1 Distributed by ASIA BOOKS CO., LTD. Sukhumwit Branch" Tel. 2527277, 2516042 Peninsula Branch: Tel. 2539786-8 Landmark Branch: Tel. 252539, 2525656 , lr -IIn7"" By the same author '§ Tim Page's Nam Sri Lanka Ten Years After L E=i 4l"l 1 4 4 t I * .p I TIM PAGE Page After Page 1 PALADIN GRAFTON BOOKS A Division of the Collins Publishing Group LONDON GLASGOW TORONTO SYDNEY AUCKLAND n H U Paladin Grafton Books A Division of the Collins Publishing Group 8 Grafton Street, London WIX LA Published in Paladin Books 1990 First published in Great Britain by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd 1988 Copyright © Tim Page 1988 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-586-09013-4 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Collins, Glasgow Set in Times All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which It is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. For all the people, all my frendz who have benevolently put up with me though, enjoin, most especially for Lindsay You get by with, you get high with a little help from . . . Laureate Lennon e i * Contents Prologue 1 Chapter 1 Growing 11 Chapter 2 Journey to the East 35 Chapter 3 Sliding Towards Theravada 63 Chapter 4 Bao Chi 94 Chapter 5 Interlude 139 . Chapter 6 Dead on Arrival 149 Chapter 7 Dissolving Recovery 176 Chapter 8 A Life-time Case 194 Chapter 9 Returns 211 Epilogue b 239 \ 2 I I l . I. 1 . r 1 t a T"` -'1 L--I-" \ ' -li _ 1 - .r _r . . 'F' 'H __'_ 1I.'. .-.. "Q. :*_ "_' l,_.p 1 { ..J '*-\., 't'*'\.:l*°*J Dong D1a. n-1Ag-.. 3. C H I N A B u R MA H1 ...-"1,¢*.'_. I1 l *1"i- . .»p ,\y.r 1. \ _rla.j Diem Bi.zI1P hu Lang Sou » \.__.* *°f3~ -I - 1. Hanoi and Gai Haiphong .LP. muab nG "g 9 JP qx o nf' H 865 dZ N Thanh Huiit# /f 0 7`vn.¢i."n fkitng Mai Vinh l. Vieiwtiane' None Khai O 'DE Lldom §Y11al=1l1¢R`\ Dang HDI Hn ROUTE .9 lJdl*lgTTi Kh8%n1 I CORPS T H A I L/A N D QgNamg Cl1uLai Prose Quant Nani Du£.,;__Pleiku` Rag- LnE ti'n AA n hgeMkto r pBla t 03 D } A .f Mv. §'§§m" DuIi IN on CORPS N}1aTmng PhnoPI en-hr Do Lat Cam Rank swf Parrots Tay Nin BieiHn i. Phu Quo: Ehqn ""*.1 S_o olPne Qan-zloIslIcmlq1'od 2m ink Ville) I. *CGmTH Ban Try Si,-j1".-l-L c l I I CORPS I mS" CORPS I II II Songhla Penang lpvh M\\A L A Y A South East Kuala: Lump5ur Asia HHon1£tr¢s Singapore I l