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My Copy of 'All What Jazz'  
   

My Copy of 'All What Jazz'

The Old Stourbridge Public Library

May 9th 2023
Living in Vietnam, far away from my native England, there are certain things I miss about English life: friends, pubs, birds, art galleries, cathedrals, live jazz, secondhand bookshops and public libraries. Here, in Ho Chi Minh City, there is no public library on a par with the great public libraries of England. Growing up in Reading, in the 1950s and 1960s, I had three libraries to choose from: t ... read more
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Vietnamese Flag The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
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