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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942–1992. By Jane Hamilton-Merritt. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xxviii, 580. Illustrations, Maps, Appendix, Notes, Glossary, List of Sources, Index.

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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942–1992. By Jane Hamilton-Merritt. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xxviii, 580. Illustrations, Maps, Appendix, Notes, Glossary, List of Sources, Index.

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Anthony R. Walker
Anthony R. Walker
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University of the South Pacific
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Book Reviews: Laos
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 435 - 438
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1996

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References

1 McCoy, Alfred W., “Review of Tragic Mountains”, Journal of Asian Studies 52, no. 3 (1993): 777–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 For a military historian's viewpoint, see McCrabb's, Maris “Review of Tragic Mountains”, The Journal of Military History 58, no. 1 (1994): 170–71Google Scholar.

3 See also her (a) “Gas Warfare in Laos: Communism's Drive to Annihilate a People”, Reader's Digest (Oct. 1980): 17–23; (b) “Gassed: H'mong Tell of ‘Rain of Death’”, Bangkok Post, 15 Feb. 1981; (c) Hmong and Yao: Mountain Peoples of Southeast Asia (Redding Ridge, CT: Survive, 1982), pp. 9–10Google Scholar, the last work containing harrowing visual evidence of the effects of the so-called “yellow rain”.

4 See especially, Ember, Lois R., “Yellow Rain: U.S. Claims It Has Incontrovertible Proof the Soviet Union is involved in the Use of Toxin Weapons, but Evidence It Has Made Public is Tenuous”, Chemical and Engineering News 62, 2 (9 Jan. 1984): 8–34CrossRefGoogle Scholar.