Hanoi, 1945: Massed skulls and bones testify to the terrible famine of 1945, when between one and two million Vietnamese died as food requisitions by occupying Japanese forces coincided with devastating floods. This photograph was acquired from the long-deceased photographer's wife, and images such as this have never been published before in Vietnam. Upon seeing the photograph in 2001 during the research for this book, many Vietnamese photographers mistakenly thought it was from Cambodia's "killing fields," and were shocked when informed it had been made in Hanoi. Photo: © Nguyen Duy Kien