"The Battle of Saigon" unfolds page by page
Thursday, May 05, 2005 - Nguoi Viet Online

In “The Battle of Saigon,” a new release, readers can immerse themselves in a collection of short stories and writings that follow the spiritual journey of a soldier who accepts sacrifice and hardship in the struggle for freedom for South Vietnam. The protagonist at the same time longs for a better society in the future. Page by page, he and other enlisted men speak.

The volume, published by Xlibris Corps., is a portrayal of men at war combined with material that examines the political and moral dilemmas of the Vietnamese Diaspora in North America.

Vietnamese are trapped between the love for the country they were forced to abandon, the ruthlessness of its present communist rulers, and the sometimes painfully different habits of the Western culture they now live in. So writes author Ngo The Vinh, who worked as chief surgeon of the 81st Airborne Rangers group in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

His title story, along with 11 subsequent stories — half created before and half created after 1975 — all focus on present war and post-war traumatic experience and dreams from the perspective of the Diaspora.

Ngo The Vinh, born in Thanh Hoa province in Central Vietnam, graduated from Saigon University’s Faculty of Medicine in 1968. He also received special training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.

After the fall of Saigon, the writer was imprisoned in different reeducation camps for three years, resettling in the United States in 1983. He now works at a hospital in Southern California.

For more information on his 200-page book, go to www.xlibris.com

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