River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312169893 (0312169892)
Publish date: September 15th 1997
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 281
Edition language: English
River of Time is mainly a memoir of Jon Swain's time as a journalist in Cambodia leading up to the takeover of the Khmer Rouge, but it also includes parts detailing his time in Vietnam, Laos and Ethiopia. This memoir is very emotional, and you can tell that the author has a lot of emotion for the ar...
The subtitle appears only on the paperback edition. It's inaccurate since much of this memoir concerns Cambodia. Swain is one of the reporters who covered the fall of Phnom Penh in the film The Killing Fields. His was the spare passport that the group unsuccessfully tried to counterfeit for Dith Pra...