Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report

As a matter of course, the underground tunnels turned out less useful than people’s preconceptions of them. — excerpt, Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report About the book: In 1981 a Polish-Vietnamese heritage conservation mission gave an impulse to transforming the partisan tunnels of Củ Chi into a symbol. The apparently technical task of securing fragments of this obscure construction, in fact constituted part of the process of adapting the history of the Vietnam War to the preferences of a modern audience—one of the most important historical policy projects of that...