Carl Robinson - a memoir of the Vietnam War

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English - March 19, 2020 11:05 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 45 ratings
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Carl Robinson first went to Vietnam to work for USAID, but following the Tet Offensive of 1968, his disillusionment with the entire war led him to quit and become a journalist. Eleven years he stayed in Vietnam, getting married, having children until he was forced to leave in a dramatic helicopter exit in 1975 in Saigon. He settled in Sydney, Australia in 1977 and established the extremely popular Old Saigon Restaurant in Newtown to a city not yet in love with Vietnamese cuisine.