{"id":346748,"date":"2018-02-04T07:57:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vietnam-will-win-introduction\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:57:32","slug":"vietnam-will-win-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vietnam-will-win-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Will Win: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99440\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-99440 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/bruchettho.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Wilfred Burchett interviews Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, 1962.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Introduction by George Burchett<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne man, Wilfred Burchett, alerted Western public opinion to the nature of this war and the struggle of the Vietnamese people. He is the contemporary historian, the meticulous journalist who has chosen to identify himself with the Vietnamese people whom he has served admirably well. It is because he has written in such a moving way and with such conviction that many of us became directly engaged in defending the Vietnamese cause. Burchett has found the correct blend of moral and political commitment. His reporting, always precise and factual, informs and at the same time mobilizes those who have the good fortune to read him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Bertrand Russell (Introduction to <em>Hano\u00ef sous les bombes<\/em> (Hanoi Under Bombs), Maspero, Paris, 1966<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To mark the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 T\u00eat Offensive, CounterPunch will serialize Wilfred Burchett\u2019s <em>Vietnam Will Win<\/em> (Guardian Books, New York, 1968) over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this quote from Bertrand Russell to introduce the book because it captures the essence of Wilfred Burchett\u2019s reporting from the \u201cthe other side\u201d of the Vietnam War \u2013 the side fighting for independence, liberty and unity .<\/p>\n<p>Burchett\u2019s original title was <em>Why The Vietcong Wins<\/em>? The Guardian Books editors insisted on a more \u201ctriumphalist\u201d title \u2013 which also proved prophetic. And no doubt helped turned the book into a best seller in the USA, where it mattered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/02\/vietnam-will-win-introduction\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilfred Burchett interviews Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, 1962. Introduction by George Burchett \u201cOne man, Wilfred Burchett, alerted Western public opinion to the nature of this war and the struggle of the Vietnamese people. He is the contemporary historian, the meticulous journalist who has chosen to identify himself with the Vietnamese people whom he has served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}