by Đặng Thùy Trâm
The diary of a young North Vietnamese woman, working as a doctor for the Viet Cong. By turns poignant and polemical, it manages to be more engaging than not, and to provide a different perspective than we usually get. The introduction by Frances Fitzgerald (and read by her in the audiobook) summariz...
This book broke my heart. It's not the first account I've read of a young woman in war, or in this war, but it's the first diary, and just the idea of keeping a diary in the middle of a war gets to me. But first a note about how this book came to be, from the cover copy: The American officer who dis...
This was really difficult. Terribly sad and poignant because our forces killed this woman, but also oddly impersonal and intermittently tedious. Much of it read like a polemic by a newly converted party-line true believer. The rest was unbearably grim.I may come back to it later, but I had to put it...
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