“Who was Colonel Hồ Ngọc Cẩn?”: Theorizing the Relationship between History and Cultural Memory

Who was Colonel Hồ Ngọc Cẩn? He was born in Rạch Giá, Việt Nam in 1938; served in the South Vietnamese army—the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)—during the Second Indochina War; and was publicly executed by the Communist forces on August 14, 1975, after refusing to surrender. Beyond that, it d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lê Espiritu, Evyn
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2013
Subjects:
War
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/92
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=pomona_theses