Last Night I Dreamed of Peace. An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War, Paperback/Dang Thuy Tram

A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It shows the diarist as a vibrant human being, a poetic longing for love, trying hard to be worthy of the Communist Party and doing her best to look after her patients under appalling conditions.