Book launch "Vietnamese women had a time like that"

Speakers interact at the book launch.

The book “Vietnamese Women Had Such a Time” collects and introduces to readers wartime letters selected from thousands of letters currently kept at the Vietnam Women’s Museum, contributing to clarifying and honoring the good qualities, spiritual strength, and noble ideals of Vietnamese women during the years of our nation’s two resistance wars against French colonialism and American imperialism.

On the morning of February 14, at Hanoi Book Street, the Truth National Political Publishing House organized the Introduction and Launch of the book "Vietnamese Women Had a Time Like That". This is a practical activity on the occasion of the 1984th anniversary of the Hai Ba Trung Uprising, the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2024), towards celebrating International Women's Day March 8, while honoring the tradition of "Heroic, indomitable, loyal, and courageous" of Vietnamese women.

The book “Vietnamese Women Had Such a Time” was published and distributed by the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in collaboration with the National Political Publishing House Truth. The book collects, assembles, and introduces to readers wartime letters selected from thousands of letters currently kept at the Vietnamese Women’s Museum, contributing to clarifying and honoring the good qualities, spiritual strength, and noble ideals of Vietnamese women during the years of our nation’s two resistance wars against French colonialism and American imperialism.

The letters express the feelings of couples who are temporarily separated, of wives waiting for their husbands, of children missing their mothers, of sisters waiting for news of their younger siblings... The separation between the home front and the frontline forces them to share their love, joys and sorrows of life and encourage each other through letters. The pages of letters are full of thoughts, feelings, and longing, but are extremely genuine and touching, imbued with the reality of the fighting life of the heroic years of the nation's history; they are also the wishes, feelings filled with emotions and noble ideals of mothers and sisters.

The book "Vietnamese women had a time like that".

Turning each page of the book “Vietnamese Women Once Were Like That”, readers not only see the overflowing emotions, but also see the image of Vietnamese women recreated through each word. Covering the difficulties, hardships, and sadness that these grandmothers, sisters, wives, and mothers had to endure is an undying belief in the victory of the entire nation. These are profound evidences of family love, love between couples, combined with love for the homeland and the Fatherland, contributing to the heroic history of the Vietnamese people.

We can mention the letters of Nguyen Thi Ngoc Toan - a medic in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign for her lover Khanh (later Lieutenant General Cao Van Khanh (1917-1980), former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army) written between 1954 and 1973. The letters reflect the love story, the life of two soldiers during the extremely fierce war, will take each of us through many emotions, the main point is the admiration for the love of the couple that has never been separated from love and responsibility for work and for the Party.

Or, for example, the letters between musician Tran Hoan and his wife. Although they got married in 1950, it was not until after the country was reunified that Tran Hoan and Thanh Hong's family was officially reunited. Therefore, letters and diary pages were the only means at that time for them to express their feelings and communicate with their spouses. Through each letter, although not polished in terms of words, not using flowery sentences, but each page is filled with longing for family, words of encouragement, comfort and the hope that the family will be reunited.

In particular, we are deeply moved when mentioning the letter of a female youth volunteer sent to her mother. This is a special letter, because no one expected that only 5 days later, she and her 9 comrades would heroically sacrifice themselves. That is the letter to mother written by Ms. Vo Thi Tan, Squad Leader of Squad 4, Company 552 of Ha Tinh Youth Volunteers on July 19, 1968, the time when the enemy attacked most fiercely at Dong Loc T-junction, one day they dropped nearly 1,000 bombs of all kinds and the letter was hastily written right on the battlefield, in poor conditions, without time and paper to draft and polish each sentence. It has been nearly half a century since the day "North - South reunited as one family" but anyone who reads this letter will be moved and proud of the girls "Forever 20 years old". Even in pain, loss, and the closeness between life and death, the optimistic spirit and noble ideals of youth still live forever.

Deputy Director of the National Political Publishing House Truth Nguyen Thai Binh spoke at the book launch ceremony.

Speaking at the book launch, comrade Nguyen Thai Binh, Deputy Director of the National Political Publishing House, Truth, shared that the further away time goes, the more valuable those evidences become, becoming priceless souvenirs for those who stay behind, becoming a common heritage of the nation.

Comrade Nguyen Thai Binh expressed his belief that the book “Vietnamese Women Had Such a Time” released today will be a valuable document, providing readers with the most authentic view of the heroic qualities of a generation ready to sacrifice and dedicate their youth to revolutionary ideals, to the cause of national liberation, and for each of us to better understand and appreciate the values that history brings to today’s peace.

The Deputy Director of the National Political Publishing House, Truth, hopes that the Introduction and Launch of the book “Vietnamese Women Had a Time Like That” will become a driving force for us to continue to have effective activities, arouse the will, noble ideals of life, promote the talent and creativity of each person to become a generation of useful, strong, dynamic citizens, building the country for the goal of “rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization”.

At the book introduction, delegates and book lovers listened to 3 speakers: Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet, Director of the Vietnam Women's Museum; Writer, journalist Dang Vuong Hung and Writer, journalist Nguyen Quang Hung shared touching and interesting information about the image of Vietnamese women during wartime in particular and the noble qualities of Vietnamese women throughout history as well as the value and significance of the book "Vietnamese Women Had a Time Like That" for today's generation, especially young readers.

With nearly 400 pages and hundreds of letters depicting the image and qualities of Vietnamese women during wartime, the book “Vietnamese Women Had a Time Like That” helps today’s young generation feel more deeply and understand more fully about a time of bombs and bullets, about the people who went through the war, and at the same time inspires today’s generation of women to learn, follow in the footsteps of the generation of heroic Vietnamese mothers and sisters during wartime, to cultivate and train themselves to have more capacity and courage, contributing to the development of the country.

Along with the traditional paper book, readers can read the electronic version of the book on https://sachquocgia.vn .

According to dangcongsan.vn

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