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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.
She wrote straight from the heart and, because of this, her diary has been a huge bestseller in Vietnam and continues to fascinate at a time of renewed interest in the Vietnam War.
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
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-12
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 forces in 1970.
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
The most compelling, honest account of a conflict that killed, by some estimates, between two and three million Vietnamese and other Asians, as well as 58,000 Americans...Raw with human emotions and unvarnished by government propaganda.
Independent
A personal dialogue, a place to shelter her soul and her spirit...Raw emotion is manifest in the diary.
Observer
Remarkable...This is an important and profoundly moving book, which redresses the one-sided macho and gun-toting coverage of the Vietnam War.
Sydney Morning Herald
In a society increasingly consumed with economic growth and material goods, the book has revived a sense of idealism. Written in a simple but powerful style, it reminds war veterans of their sacrifices and educates a new generation - born after the war's end - about the hardships their elders faced.
Los Angeles Times
This combination of revolutionary fervor with the vulnerabilities and self-doubts of a too-sensitive young woman might be called ideology with a human face, reminding readers that it was people like them, trapped in a moment of history, who died on their behalf.
New York Times
The fascinating diary of a young Viet Cong doctor who died in the Vietnam War.
Chicago Tribune
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
The most compelling, honest account of a conflict that killed, by some estimates, between two and three million Vietnamese and other Asians, as well as 58,000 Americans...Raw with human emotions and unvarnished by government propaganda.
Independent
A personal dialogue, a place to shelter her soul and her spirit...Raw emotion is manifest in the diary.
Observer
Remarkable...This is an important and profoundly moving book, which redresses the one-sided macho and gun-toting coverage of the Vietnam War.
Sydney Morning Herald
In a society increasingly consumed with economic growth and material goods, the book has revived a sense of idealism. Written in a simple but powerful style, it reminds war veterans of their sacrifices and educates a new generation - born after the war's end - about the hardships their elders faced.
Los Angeles Times
This combination of revolutionary fervor with the vulnerabilities and self-doubts of a too-sensitive young woman might be called ideology with a human face, reminding readers that it was people like them, trapped in a moment of history, who died on their behalf.
New York Times
The fascinating diary of a young Viet Cong doctor who died in the Vietnam War.
Chicago Tribune