The author of the book is Dang Kim Tram, the younger sister of female doctor, martyr, and armed forces hero Dang Thuy Tram. She has translated many English books, written for newspapers, and is the main person in charge of Dang Thuy Tram's posthumous works, compiled into books, along with many other related documents.
In “Dang Thuy Tram and the Third Diary”, Dang Thuy Tram’s childhood, adolescence and a part of her beautiful youth are recounted, along with memories with her family and friends, in the heart of the peaceful capital Hanoi , with her heart turned towards her beloved South which was still suffering from bombs and bullets.
An important part of the book is the unpublished manuscript of female doctor Dang Thuy Tram, including “The Third Diary” and some letters with family and friends. In those diary pages, the image of a Dang Thuy Tram full of femininity, with youthful energy, with a heart filled with love for the country, family, relatives, friends and love between couples appears.
That romantic, delicate and passionate medical student, while enthusiastically studying and training in a safe and favorable environment, was always full of worries about ideals, about the meaning of life, about the dream of curing patients, about the mission of a citizen when the country was divided, about the courage to face challenges and injustice, with an unhesitating Danko spirit.
The latter part of the book recounts the journey of Dang Thuy Tram's two war diaries returning to where they belong after 35 years, thrilling and touching; stories after Dang Thuy Tram's Diary was published, such as the story of finding the first person from the "other side" who read Dang Thuy Tram's diary and prevented it from being burned, about the trip to the US to receive the two lost diaries, the story of the great mother of the great daughter...
“Dang Thuy Tram and the Third Diary” is a book that when we read, we remember a person who, like many other Vietnamese people, sacrificed for the Fatherland, for peace , with the complete ideals and love of immortal youth.
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The "fire" Dang Thuy Tram has always shone in the young generation of Vietnam for the past 20 years. |
In 2005, two war diaries of female doctor and martyr Dang Thuy Tram, after 35 years of hiding in the US, were returned to her family by American veterans and thanks to that, the world came to know about "Dang Thuy Tram's Diary". Up to now, more than half a million copies of the book have been published in Vietnam and translated into 23 languages around the world, causing intense emotions and inspiring many people about a Vietnamese soul in the resistance war against the US, delicate, brave and humane, amidst fierce bombs and bullets, still bright with aspirations and love. Over the past 20 years, the vitality spread through her war diaries has remained persistent, the "flame" of Dang Thuy Tram always shines in the young generation of Vietnam.
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