The twenty-one year war had brought chaos, catastrophe, and death. Two million civilians perished in the conflict. More than a million Northern troops and 250,000 South Vietnamese combatants never came home. 58,000 members of the US armed forces were dead or missing, and 500 Australian soldiers had sacrificed their lives. For the next decade, Vietnam descended into total self-destruction. SHOCK PEACE reveals the tragic life stories of numerous survivors in postwar Vietnam with spell binding raw emotion and gripping insights to daily lives, never told before. A riveting reading for all.