Anecdotes of a Vagabond: The Foreign Service, the UN, and a Volag

Book Description
This dramatic memoir, enhanced with multiple images of Asian faces, recounts the author's Foreign Service and United Nations experiences in wartime Southeast Asia, and amidst the Afghan, Indochinese, and Somali refugee crises. It also covers diverse missions to remote spots like Colomancagua in Honduras, Bassikounou in Mauritania, and Mannar in Sri Lanka. It concludes with a perspective, lightened by humor, on the controversial American involvement in Vietnam.

About the Author
In a career spanning 44 years, all but ten abroad, Thomas J. Barnes began as an Army Officer with tours in Korea and Japan. He next spent over 23 years in the Foreign Service, principally in Southeast Asia. Then, after a decade with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, mainly in Geneva but initially in Somalia, and four years with an international non-governmental organization, he retreated to the United States. The author of Tay Son: Rebellion in 18th Century Vietnam, he speaks several Asian languages.


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This dramatic memoir, enhanced with multiple images of Asian faces, recounts theauthor￯﾿ﾽs Foreign Service and United Nations experiences in wartime Southeast Asia, and amidst the Afghan, Indochinese, and Somali refugee crises. It also covers diverse missions to remote spots like Colomancagua in Honduras, Bassikounou in Mauritania, and Mannar in Sri Lanka. It concludes with a perspective, lightened by humor, on the controversial American involvement in Vietnam.


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