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...story of how a woman became Vietnam's best-selling author 35 years after her death is almost as compelling as what she wrote. In 1970, as the Vietnam War raged, U.S. intelligence officer Fred Whitehurst was burning a stack of captured enemy documents in Quang Ngai province when his translator begged him to spare a tiny cardboard-wrapped bundle because "it has fire in it already." Intrigued, the American asked his translator to read from the papers, which turned out to be the war diaries of Dr. Dang Thuy Tram, a North Vietnamese field surgeon shot by an American...
...Decades later, Whitehurst managed to track down Tram's family in Hanoi and returned a copy of the diaries to them. What happened next surprised almost everyone. Published in Vietnam in mid-2005, the war diaries became a runaway hit, selling some 430,000 copies in a country where few books have a print run greater than 5,000. Tram herself became a national hero, with hundreds of people visiting her grave site and a hospital named after her. For the younger generation of Vietnamese (nearly 60% of the population was born after the war's end in 1975), Tram...
...northern family, Tram volunteered for battlefield duty on the southern front at the tender age of 24, just after graduating from medical school. She spent three and a half years operating a clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once ... He even smiled to encourage...
...Upon winning the Nobel, Wald used his fame as a platform to advance his stance against the Vietnam...
...currency-control measure in December 2006 led to the biggest one-day loss in the stock market's history - makes it easy to get nostalgic. "The economy was good then," insists taxi driver Narongsak Iamsamorn, 39, who hasn't decided who to vote for this time round. "But now Vietnam is laughing at us. Even a schoolchild can tell you how bad our economy is." His fares have dropped by two-thirds since the coup. "I want Thaksin to come back and make Thailand better again," he says...