Following in the footsteps of patriotic ancestors

In Footprints of Patriots, Dr. Nguyen Van Khoan spent a lot of effort collecting documents and meeting witnesses directly to portray 19 characters who made especially important contributions to the process of gaining national independence and unifying the country.

Although they grew up and worked in different periods and had different choices, they all had in common a love of learning, perseverance, patriotism and a heart to "share the hardships" with the people in the resistance and nation-building cause led by President Ho Chi Minh . As a collaborator of the Ho Chi Minh Institute and the Party's leaders, the author has the conditions and potential to revisit historical pages that have been more or less forgotten.

The book has just been published by Tre Publishing House.

PHOTO: Publisher

The above portraits are arranged in a coherent manner according to many factors, from their activities, revolutionary missions to common points on the path they have chosen. For example, about those who responded to the call for patriotic youth to go abroad, Dong Du to Japan to study to save the country, Dr. Nguyen Van Khoan portrayed Hoang Trong Mau - Commander-in-Chief of Quang Phuc Army "as a practitioner, not just a debater"; Ho Hoc Lam - a Party member without a Party card "undercover" in Chiang Kai-shek's government; Nguyen Thuc Duong - who, along with his two brothers Nguyen Thuc Canh and Nguyen Thuc Do, refused to be slaves...

Besides, he also mentioned special women who made important contributions. They were the wife named Ngo Khon Duy and daughter Ho Diec Lan of Ho Hoc Lam - who campaigned for the authorities to release leader Ho Chi Minh at the end of 1942 in Lieu Chau (China). Ly Phuong Duc - a female liaison soldier for Uncle Ho, for the Communist International... amidst many difficulties was also mentioned. Besides direct participation, they could also be a special source of influence such as Mrs. Tran Thi Tram - who was given the nickname Tieu Trung (Little Trung Sister) by Phan Boi Chau - who taught her son Ho Hoc Lam: "You were born to wash away the shame of the country, just as this towel was woven to wash away the dirt of people"...

There is also Le Hong Son - one of the founders of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Hoang Dao Thuy - a revolutionary and a culturalist.... Intellectuals who gave up a life of luxury to join the ranks of President Ho Chi Minh's soldiers are also mentioned. There is Dr. Tran Huu Tuoc who left France with high skills to fulfill his civic conscience when "the nation rose and fell". There is Luong Dinh Cua - an agricultural doctor who refused to go to the US and Europe to develop his career and chose his homeland which was still in difficulty, from which new varieties of rice and fruit trees were born...

In the book, each portrait is reproduced briefly, concisely and informatively. The author also chooses interesting details to help the characters come alive. It can be said that through these typical portraits, readers will see the "historical footprints" of great role models, thereby being inspired as well as continuing the pride in the heroic and indomitable tradition of our nation.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/theo-buoc-nhung-tien-nhan-ai-quoc-185250824220102133.htm