Tag: Tan Trao

• A Valentine’s Day Exclusive: “Banyan Tree” Romantic Excerpt

  My latest novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, is loosely a historical romance. I hate to categorize it as such because I don’t believe it adequately describes it. But, it does have romance and it does tell a historical story. I thought I’d share a short romantic excerpt in honor of Valentine’s Day 2015. In…

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  February 14, 2015

  Writing Excerpt

  book excerpt, French Indochina, historical, romance, Tan Trao, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, valentine’s day books, Vietnam

• Are you familiar with the banyan tree? Check out post on the Storyreadingape

  Chris, at TheStoryReadingApe was kind enough to publish a guest article I wrote as a promo for my new novel. I focused in the banyan tree and what I learned about it when I lived in Vietnam. Here’s the beginning of my article, but please click the link below and go over to his great…

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  August 10, 2014

  Indie Author, Promotion

  banyan tree, French colonialism, roots of banyan tree, Tan Trao, thestoryreadingape, Viet Minh, Vietnam, Vietnam books, World War II

• My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #1 northern Vietnam (Part II)

  In Part I of my post about my favorite place in Asia Part I HERE, I took the time to talk about the Vietnamese people who, indeed, make northern Vietnam a special place. But I felt I needed another post to round things out and highlight some of the other special aspects about this incredible…

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  March 14, 2014

  Places & Tourism

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• Know Your History: Americans Helping the Viet-Minh in 1945

  On July 16, 1945 a group of American OSS officers (Office of Strategic Services – the precursor to the CIA) parachuted into the Viet-Minh HQ in Tan Trao, Tonkin. (Tonkin was the name for northern Vietnam during the French colonial period.) This small group of officers were charged with helping to train the Vietnamese to…

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  February 5, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  Deer Team, Dien Bien Phu, French, French Indochina, French-Indochina War, Ho Chi Minh, OSS, Tan Trao, Tonkin, Viet Minh, Vietnam