Wayne Karlin's memoir <i>War Movies</i> recounts his return to Vietnam to work on the Vietnamese film <i>Song of the Stork, </i>in which young Vietnamese filmmakers tried to recreate their parents' war. On his journey, Karlin lives in two worlds--the world of postwar Vietnam and the world of film. What is reality? What is fiction? What are the consequences of former sacrifice? These are some of the underlying themes explored in the course of this intriguing narrative.
