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“An absorbing and moving autobiography…Crucial addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion within the political life of our era.”—Chicago Tribune
When he was once a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought within the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as some of the major figures within the “fight for liberation”—and some of the made up our minds adversaries of america. He became the Vietcong’s Minister of Justice, but on the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the easiest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. That is his candid, revealing and unforgettable autobiography.