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Many accounts of war take (an understandably) Western view of military campaigns. Our staff are interested in the ‘other’ side of the conflict and have researched the insurgents’ views of war. In one project exploring the South Vietnamese, our staff undertook an examination of thousands of interviews with Viet Cong soldiers and their South Vietnamese supporters. These reveal less than whole-hearted support for the insurgency and a willingness to back whichever side in the war could offer safety and security.

Gregory, D. (2019). Vernacular memorialisation in the military: Personal acts of remembrance at RAF Thorpe Abbotts, England, Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 14(2-3), pp. 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2020.1726124
Gregory, D. & Wayne, C. (2020). “I do feel good because my stomach is full of good hotcakes”: Comfort food, home, and the USAAF in East Anglia during the Second World War, History, 105(368), pp. 806-824. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13081
Gregory, D. (2022) The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive. Routledge.
Gregory, D. (2023). A box in the desert: Using open access satellite imagery to map the 151st Infantry Brigade’s field defences on the Gazala Line, 1942, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-023-00712-8
Poole, D. (2022) Hunting the Viet Cong - Volume I: The Counterinsurgency Campaign in South Vietnam 1961-1963. Helion & Company.
Poole, D. (2023) Hunting the Viet Cong - Volume II: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets, 1961-1964. Helion & Company.