A Vietcong Memoir, Truong Nhu Tang
A Vietcong Memoir, Truong Nhu Tang
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A Vietcong Memoir
An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath

Author: Truong Nhu Tang, Doan Van Toai, David Chanoff

Narrator: Trieu Tran

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/13/2018

Synopsis

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation"—and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. This is his candid, revealing, and unforgettable autobiography.

About Truong Nhu Tang

Truong Nhu Tang, a founder of the National Liberation Front and Minister of Justice in the Vietcong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was one of the most determined adversaries of the United States during the war. Living a double, at times a triple, life in Saigon, he was a high-level economics official for the South Vietnamese government who simultaneously worked as one of the revolution's most effective urban organizers. Captured and tortured by the Thieu police, in 1968 he was traded in a secret U.S.-Viet Cong prisoner exchange and spent the rest of the war in the resistance strongholds on the Cambodian border.

A revolutionary for almost thirty years, after liberation Tang fought a losing battle on behalf of the policy of national reconciliation and concord which he had helped design. In the end, profoundly disillusioned by the massive political repression and economic chaos the new government brought with it, he carried out a dramatic escape by boat to a U.N. refugee camp in the South China Sea.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Naeem on September 25, 2023

Review of Doan Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir The most important thing to know about this book is that it is beautifully written and wonderfully translated. The pages fly by and when the book ends you find yourself asking for more, for the next volume, the missing elements. You don’t want to lea......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 06, 2020

An absolutely astonishing autobiography, the Vietnamese equivalent to A Bright Shining Lie, and a candid look into the inner workings of the revolution, its strengths, and its flaws. Tang was a child of privileged in colonial Saigon, second of sixth sons, educated in French culture by his father and......more

Goodreads review by Mary on October 25, 2014

"My son, I simply cannot understand you. You have abandoned everything. A good family, happiness, wealth--to follow the Communists. They will never return to you a particle of the things you have left. You will see. They will betray you, and you will suffer your entire life." Truer words were never s......more

Goodreads review by Nick on August 24, 2014

The tragedy of Viet Nam is on this side of the Pacific the story of American soldiers and Vietnamese refugees. Truong Nhu Tang has a different, and in many ways darker, perspective. This was a man who grew up under the French, met and was charmed by Ho Chi Minh, joined the struggle for independence......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy on September 17, 2017

An excellent look at the Vietcong (VC), National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF), Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG), and Central Office South Vietnam communist headquarters (COSVN). Truong Nhu Tang would learn the five precepts of Confucian ethics from his grandfather: nhon, nghia,......more

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