In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War tai language “Brilliantly conceived and meticulously edited

“Brilliantly conceived and meticulously edited

Concludes that Myanmar is not a client state of China

and rich natural resources emerge from the shadows of its more powerful neighbours after being carved up by colonial powers in the nineteenth century and dragged into devastating revolution and war in the twentieth

aging populations

some dating back to the early 20th centure

In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War tai language “Brilliantly conceived and meticulously editedIn Buddhas Company explores a previously neglected aspect of the Vietnam War: the experiences of the Thai troops who served there and the attitudes and beliefs that motivated them to volunteer. Blending the methodologies of cultural history and ethnography, Richard Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungle haunted by indigenous spirits. Drawing on