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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
Dang Thuy Tram
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Description for Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
Paperback. A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It shows the diarist as a vibrant human being, a poetic longing for love, trying hard to be worthy of the Communist Party and doing her best to look after her patients under appalling conditions. Num Pages: 272 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGHA; HBJF; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 122 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it an important slice of history, from the opposite side of Dispatches and Apocalypse Now, but it shows the diarist - Dang Thuy Tram - as a vibrant human being, full of youthful idealism, a poetic longing for love, trying hard to be worthy of the Communist Party and doing her best to look after her patients under appalling conditions.
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Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846040764
SKU
V9781846040764
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99-99
About Dang Thuy Tram
Dang Thuy Tram was the daughter of a prosperous family of doctors. In 1967, at the age of 24, she volunteered to serve as a doctor in a Vietcong battlefield hospital in the Quan Ngai Province. From 1968 to 1970 she kept a diary recording her experiences of the conflict in compelling and honest terms. She was killed by American ... Read more
Reviews for Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
Thuy Tram's diary has been described as "the Vietnamese Anne Frank", combining vivid depiction of the violence and dreadful conditions of the conflict with a moving, very personal account'
Glasgow Herald
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is a book to be read by all and included in any course on the literature of war
Chicago Tribune ... Read more
Glasgow Herald
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is a book to be read by all and included in any course on the literature of war
Chicago Tribune ... Read more