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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War

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‘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.

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Weight 0.186 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.7 × 19.6 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

272
Publisher

Year Published

2009-1-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1846040760
About The Author

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.
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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'
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is a book to be read by all and included in any course on the literature of war

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