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

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781846040580
  • 01 februari 2008
  • 256 pagina's
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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 - 350,000 copies sold in 2005 alone. Now Rider brings the first English translation, in book form, to the Commonwealth markets. But there is more: how the diary came to light is also an unusual story in its own right. Fred Whitehurst was a US intelligence officer on the scene just after Dang Thuy Tram was shot. He came across the diary and, instead of burning it there and then, took it home. His brother translated it and so began an odyssey that took 35 years, to find Thuy Tram's family in Vietnam, and return the small brown book to them. Remarkably, in 2005, Fred Whitehurst tracked down the young doctor's mother who graciously accepted it from this former GI who, as a result, was able to complete his own journey of reconciliation after years of bitterness as a Vietnam vet.

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en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 februari 2008
Aantal pagina's
256
Illustraties
Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Dang Tram
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Ebury Publishing

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Eerste Vertaler
Andrew X. Pham

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Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
143 mm
Verpakking hoogte
25 mm
Verpakking lengte
224 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
394 g

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9781846040580

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