Charles Royster is Boyd Professor Emeritus of History at Louisiana State University and the author of many books including A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775- 1783.
"O'Neill wishes to engage his readers in his characters' crises of emotion, of identity, and of moral choice... [He] tries to reconcile sympathy and memory by creating beautiful stories of brutal doings... His mind's eye saw readers who understood his tales: the fight in Tonkin would continue as long as the Vietnamese exist or 'until justice and equity reign in the East.' He wished to attract 'the notice of our Occidental minds' to this attribute of the people he had fought. Americans and Europeans ought to know that the Vietnamese, instead of being 'savages, ' were 'patriots'; they had 'made desperate efforts to resist French invasion, ' and this 'resistance to injustice' both 'preserved individuality' and proved 'a certain superiority."--Charles Royster, from his introduction
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