The twentieth anniversary edition of An-My L&234;'s acclaimed first book Small Wars, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.&9;For the past three decades, An-My L&234; has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.&160;&9;First published in 2005, Small Wars brings together three interconnected series. In Vi&234;t Nam, L&234; returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in Small Wars, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in 29 Palms, she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taken together, this trilogy brilliantly presents a complexly layered exploration of the issues surrounding landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war.&160;&9;With great precision and clarity, L&234; is able to evoke the work of nineteenth-century landscapes as well as that of the New Topographics-but by weaving in her own personal narrative of refuge and return, she pushes beyond both to produce a uniquely revelatory body of work.