Entitled Memories of the War, photographs in the book were taken in North Vietnam between 1967 and 1973. Many of the photographs have yet to be seen by the public.

Thanh said he wanted to remind young people around the globe of not only the suffering and hardship during the war, but also the heroism and magnanimity. 

He said he also wanted to give American veterans an honest no-holds-barred account of the war, which began in 1954 and ended in 1975. 

"I myself learnt a lot about the war through the lens of a young war photographer who was little more than 20 years old at the time and experienced the war from a Vietnamese perspective," Thanh said. 

The artistic power of the photographs in the book lies in their unembellished warts-and-all honesty, poet Huu Thinh said. 

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