Philip Jones Griffiths, the first Westerner to travel by road from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City after the Vietnam war, and later the Ho Chi Minh trail, has amassed an unparalleled photographic record of the post-war transformation of the country. From the first days of terrible hardships, as the joys of victory were quickly tempered by the reality of the destruction levelled by the war and the crippling effects of the US embargo, he has recorded an uncomfortably comprehensive view of the aftermath of hostilities.