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Book Review: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace

When my Welsh friend who spent years teaching high school in Vietnam, suggested I Dreamed of Peace, I didn’t hesitate to pick it up. He spoke of it not just as a book but as an experience—a way to truly understand the Vietnam War from the inside out, through the eyes of someone who lived it every day. That someone was Đặng Thùy Trâm, a young North Vietnamese doctor whose diary survived long after she didn’t.

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