Much has been documented about the young soldiers who went to Vietnam as innocent boys and returned as hollowed-out men. Far less has been written about the women, who mostly went in caring roles rather than to the front line. But the experience was just as defining-and haunting-for them. They encountered adventure and abuse, romance and rape, carnage and cause for celebration. They also discovered strengths they never knew they had.
Moving, enlightening and sometimes shocking, Minefields and Miniskirts broke new ground when first published in 1993. It tells the gripping and extraordinary real-life stories of thirty-five women who went to Vietnam as nurses, journalists, entertainers, volunteers and consular staff, along with those of women who waited at home for their shattered husbands, fathers, brothers and sons to return.
This long-awaited new edition, revised, updated and completely re-designed, features many new photographs, both colour and black-and-white, and places the story against the background of the war in Iraq and other contemporary conflicts.
