“The history of the war has been a partial one, underscored by the American dominance of the English-language historiography of the war and the focus on American policies and the American experience of the war, coupled with a mostly negative assessment of South Vietnam.”
Americans know this war through American cameras. These photos come from North Vietnamese photographers, collected in the book Another Vietnam. The NVA grew from about 35,000 men in 1950 to over half a million by the mid-’70s. The other side had faces, and most Americans never saw them.