The Sorrow of War - goolge books

On Google Books, I found this book, which is called The Vietnam War 1956 - 1975, written by Andrew Wiest. The first bit of the page above, talks about the feelings of someone after the war has ended. This can relate back to Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War because this reflects feelings that Kien might have felt after the war. Although they have survived the war, the influence of war was so great that it felt as if 'so much of [them] died in Vietnam' and there were times where they wished that they died at war instead of having to face the consequences after the war was over. We are able to see that the  experience they had at war haunts them forever.



This is another extract from a book that talks about the life after the Vietnam war.
The war is referred to as a 'heart-of-darkness' experience for the people who were involved and were affected by the war. It says 'guilt at surviving the war' which is what the previous book talks about. Although they have survived, it might have been better off to have died at war because the guilt and the psychological scars are too significant for them to overcome.