A War Away

Tess Johnston has spent her life seeking adventure, in East Germany and then in China for thirty years, but the pinnacle of her experiences was seven years in Vietnam, 1967-74, where she snared a job with the infamous American wartime leader, John Paul Vann. In A War Away, Tess recounts stories including the Tet Offensive, the assassination of her boyfriend and what it was like to be an American woman there during those harrowing years. Original.