Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War by Dang Thuy Tram. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781846040580.

On June 1970 Dang Thuy Tram was shot dead by an American patrol in south Vietnam. She was a twenty-seven-year-old doctor, daughter of a prosperous North Vietnamese family, who was trying to defend her patients and her country. Discovered among her possessions was this extraordinary document. Her diary explains what it is like to live in the shadow of the invading enemy; to hide underground within earshot of a traitors footfalls; to be full of idealism and yet longing for love, and to look towards the future when the world is collapsing. Her voice is as relevant and vibrant today as when she first committed her private thoughts on paper between April 1968 and June 1970, still five years away from the decisive Vietnamese liberation victory in Saigon that ended the American occupation.