Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781780233642)

Vu Hong Lien is a Vietnamese-British historian who has written widely on the history of Southeast Asia. She is the author of Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and lives in London. Peter D. Sharrock is a senior teaching fellow in the history of art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Both authors are former journalists who covered the Vietnamese-American War.