"The Vietnam Story" (1972 illustrated Soviet work, PDF)

[Ismail]

https://archive.org/details/TheVietnamStory

Scanned by a person I know. As you might imagine it's about the Vietnam War. As you also might imagine it takes a pretty negative attitude towards the American role in it.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

This looks good, but "Illustrated" had me hoping for a graphic novel.

Which raises a question: Soviet comics and graphic novels?

Ismail, if you can find a graphic novel about the Albanian Revolution, I promise not only to read it, but to print and photocopy it for my friends.

[Ismail]

Perhaps they exist in the Albanian language, but none are online.

As for the Vietnam book, I noticed it actually mentions John McCain (future US Senator and Republican Presidential candidate in 2008.)

"Your name?"
"John Sidney McCain"
"Rank?"
"Major, United States Navy."
The questions were addressed to an American pilot dressed in a war prisoner's robe. He was shot down over Hanoi in one of the fiercest air battles in the war on October 26, 1967. It was his 23rd mission over the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and it ended in a lake in Hanoi known as Silvery Rushes, where he came down after bailing out from his burning plane. In that raid his group lost three planes.
"What is your opinion of Hanoi's air defences?"
"As for the ground-to-air missiles," said the Major, a son and grandson of US admirals, "I think they are quite accurate, and we often cannot evade them. I had almost reached my target when I suddenly saw the missiles heading towards me. Then there was a terrific blast... And now I'm a prisoner..."
Hundreds of airmen captured on North Vietnamese soil have admitted that they have never seen such strong air defences before.