From Internet Book Watch
In Harvesting Pa Chay’s Wheat: The Hmong & America’s Secret War In Laos, Keith Quincy reveals the American military’s involvement in Southeast Asia in what came to be called the Laotian “secret war” and its tragic consequences for the America ’s allies, the Hmong people and their culture. By the early 1980s, the entire Hmong society had fled out of Laos and into Thailand and the United States , making them a people in exile from their ancestral homeland. Harvesting Pa Chay’s Wheat is a seminal work explaining how and why this terrible outcome came about, and is a chilling reminder that even after the fighting stops, the devastations of war continue on. Also available in a hardcover edition, Harvesting Pa Chay’s Wheat is highly recommended reading for students of Hmong history, the Vietnamese conflict, and American foreign policy. |
