The Battle of Saigon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781413463774)

Ngo The Vinh was an ARVN Airborne Ranger M.D. during the Vietnam War. This author, winner of the 1971 National Prize for Literature for his novel The Green Belt, ironically was also penalized for his writing, when he was summoned to the court of law because of the title story of this collection: "The Battle of Saigon". This short story records the spiritual journey of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hardship in the struggle for freedom of South Vietnam, a soldier who at the same time longs for a better society in the future. For the contents of this work, Ngo The Vinh was accused of using the press to circulate arguments that were deemed detrimental to public order, that militated against the discipline and fighting spirit of the army, a collective of which he himself was a member. Like the title story, the other eleven works in this collection, half of them created before and the other half after 1975, present war and post-war traumatic experiences and dreams from the perspective of Vietnamese Diaspora. "The Battle of Saigon

Author: Ngo the Vinh, The Vinh Ngo
ISBN-10: 1413463770
ISBN-13: 9781413463774
Publisher: Xlibris
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2005
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d