Adam Piette The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century British and American War Literature p.218 "The Horrors of War - With the poetry of Nguyen Quang Thieu, Trinh Cong Son, Nguyen Duc Mau, Ngo Vinh Long and Xuan Quynh we enter a poetic terrain that is more nuanced and less rhetorical." "Nguyen Duc Mau repeats the idea of a nation that has been at war for generations in 'The Old Soldier':"
