19 FEBRUARY 1994, page 31

Passing By On The Other Side

Lucretia Stewart THE SORROW OF WAR by Bao Ninh Secker, £8.99, pp. 217 I t has taken nearly 20 years for the United States to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam and almost as long......

Down There On A Visit

Nicholas Harman B andits and soffits and exotic land- scapes were the stuff of the old travel books, written for the man in the armchair with the glass of whisky. Now you can......