History & the Secret War

Keeb Kwm

For fifteen years the United States ran a war in Laos that officially did not exist, and Hmong soldiers and their families paid most of its price. The books here document that war, the recruitment of the Hmong by the CIA, the collapse of 1975, and the exodus that followed, which is the origin story of nearly every Hmong community in America. Start with a general account like Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat, and read it alongside the memoirs, which tell the same history from inside.