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

Author:   Dang Thuy Tram
Publisher:   Ebury Publishing
ISBN:  

9781846040764


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dang Thuy Tram
Publisher:   Ebury Publishing
Imprint:   Rider & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.186kg
ISBN:  

9781846040764


ISBN 10:   1846040760
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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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' * 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 *


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


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 *


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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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