THE YEAR OF THE CAT

• World opinion tires of the ongoing war in Vietnam.
  
  
• Saigon just before the fall.
  
  
• The aftermath. A diaspora of Vietnamese people.
  

THE YEAR OF THE TIGER

• How the 1973 oil crisis grounds the South vietnamese Air Force.
  
  
• The burning and rebuilding of the main oil installation.
  
  
• Singapore embargo of Arab oil. Economics of war.
  
  
• Eye witnesses at the enigmatic battle of Ben Cat.
  
  
• Farewell to Vietnam.

THE YEAR OF THE BUFFALO

• The small window of hope created by the "phony" peace. Visit to the Vietcong "leopard spots".
  
  
• Organised theft and a society dinner.
  
  
• Oil concessions in the South China offshore, disputed by China.
  
  
• The flower of American generalship. Farewell to US general Weyand.
  
  
• Excursions by Air America to the war in Laos and Cambodia.
  
  
• A celebrated Saigon hostess and business woman.
  
  
• ARVN defences in the central highlands.

THE YEAR OF THE MOUSE

• The huge and profitable oil market created by the Vietnam War, viewed from Shell Centre in London.
  
  
• A thousand years history of Vietnamese expansion. Vietnam's troubled son-to-father relationship with China.
  
  
• The inner workings of the Saigon establishment.
  
  
• War risks. Corruption as a social equaliser in times of unbridled inflation. Labour disputes settled by death threats.
  
  
• Dr. Kissinger's peace negotiations and continuing sapper attacks.