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A Vietcong Memoir : An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
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A Vietcong Memoir : An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath Paperback - 1986

by Tang, Truong Nhu

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  • Title A Vietcong Memoir : An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
  • Author Tang, Truong Nhu
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1986-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3940975-6
  • ISBN 9780394743097 / 0394743091
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.24 x 0.76 in (20.32 x 13.31 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam - Politics and government - 1975-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85040685
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. This is his candid, revealing and unforgettable autobiography.

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Media reviews

"Beautifully written." -- William Shawcross, front page, Washington Post Book World



"By showing the nature and hidden strength of our opponents, this account goes a long way toward explaining why America failed in Vietnam despite its greatly superior military power. But A Vietcong Memoir is more than just an exposition of the revolutionaries' side of the war. It is also an absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era."

-- Arnold R. Isaacs, Chicago Tribune

"Literate, mercifully free of the stridencies and banalities that characterize the Communists' agitprop prose. The prose gives off an aura of authenticity and reasonableness."

-- Robert Manning, The New York Times Book Review

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 03/14/1986, Page 0

About the author

Truong Nhu Tang, a founder of the National Liberation Front and Minister of Justice in the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was one of the most determined adversaries of the United States during the war. Living a double, at times a triple, life in Saigon, he was a high-level economics official for the South Vietnamese government who simultaneously worked as one of the revolution's most effective urban organizers. Captured and tortured by the Thieu police, in 1968 he was traded in a secret U.S.-Viet Cong prisoner exchange and spent the rest of the war in the resistance strongholds on the Cambodian border.

A revolutionary for almost thirty years, after liberation Tang fought a losing battle on behalf of the policy of national reconciliation and concord which he had helped design. In the end, profoundly disillusioned by the massive political repression and economic chaos the new government brought with it, he carried out a dramatic escape by boat to a U.N. refugee camp in the South China Sea. He now lives in exile in Paris, France.

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