About the book: 2011 / Writer Yuri Pakhomov was formerly the chief epidemiologist of the USSR Navy. Due to the nature of his activity, he had to work in many exotic countries of the world. He wrote a noteworthy memoir about his work in Vietnam in the late 1970s, when that small country had just repelled the military aggression of its northern neighbor, China. We offer these notes to the attention of our readers..