Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 by Nha

Description: Mourning Headband for Hue by Nha Ca, Olga Dror Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her fathers funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her fathers funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month of fighting, their beautiful city lies in ruins and thousands of people are dead. Mourning Headband for Hue tells the story of what happened during the fierce North Vietnamese offensive and is an unvarnished and riveting account of war as experienced by ordinary people caught up in the violence. Author Biography Nha Ca, meaning a "courteous, elegant song" or "canticle" in Vietnamese, is the penname of one of the most famous South Vietnamese writers of the second half of the 20th century, whose real name is Tran Th Thu Van. She was born in Hue in 1939 and spent her youth there before moving to Saigon where she became a popular and prolific writer and poet. Initially her works focused on love but starting from the mid-1960s in many of her works she began to describe the fighting, atrocities, and suffering inflicted by the war that was ravaging her country. The most significant and famous of these works is Mourning Headband for Hue, which describes the experience of Vietnamese civilians in Hue during the Tet Offensive. This work was one of the winners of South Vietnams Presidential Literary Award. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Communist authorities put Nha Ca into a prison camp where she remained from 1976 to 1977. Her husband, the poet Tran D Tu, was jailed for twelve years. In 1989, a year after he was released from prison, the couple and their family received political asylum from the Swedish government. Later they moved to the United States and now live in Southern California, where they publish the Vietnamese-language newspaper Viet Bao. Born and raised in Leningrad, USSR, Olga Dror received an MA in Oriental studies from Leningrad State University in 1987 and later pursued an advanced degree from the Institute for Linguistic Studies in the Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She worked for Radio Moscows Department of Broadcasting to Vietnam. In 1990 she immigrated to Israel, studied international relations at Hebrew University, and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its embassy in Riga, Latvia, from 1994 to 1996. She continued her study of Vietnam and earned a PhD from Cornell University in 2003. Now an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, she is author of Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History and editor of two volumes on Vietnamese and Chinese religions. Her current research concerns the identities of Vietnamese children during the war in Vietnam. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationTranslators IntroductionSmall Preface: Writing to Admit Guilt1. First Hours2. The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer3. Hodge-podge4. On a Boat Trip5. A Person from Tu Dam Comes Back and Tells His Story6. Going Back into the Hell of the Fighting7. Story from the Citadel8. Returning to the Old House9. A Dog in Midstream10. Little Child of, Hue Little Child of Vietnam, I Wish You Luck! Review "A superb piece of work. I have never encountered anything remotely like it in the voluminous literature on the Vietnam War. Nha Cas voice is so powerfully immediate, and her caring determined eyes carefully guide the reader into the thick of a chaotic world painfully under seige. A wonderful testimonial history but also a great work of commemoration." - Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge, author of Ghosts of War in Vietnam "Mourning Headband for Hue is a personal account of what happened in Hue during the month-long occupation of parts of the city by communist troops during the 1968 Tet Offensive, a very bloody episode of the Vietnam War which inflicted extremely heavy losses on the civilian population in both human and material terms. Stranded in Hue where she had come to visit her family, the author found herself face-to-face with the war... Horrified, she recounts her experiences day by day as if weeping and wailing in the remembrance of the atrocities she has seen and heard. It is indeed a book laden with blood, sweat, and tears, but records events without distorting them. With explanatory information on many persons and events provided by the translator, the book is a valuable document for the history of the Vietnam War." - Nguyen The Anh, Rector of Hue University at the time of the events described in this book, is professor emeritus, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris-Sorbonne, and author most recently of Vietnam: A Journey into History (in French). "The stunning formal techniques the book employs to convey the horrors of [the Vietnam War] endows it with a measure of universal literary significance that lies outside the local arenas of Vietnamese politics and culture... A Mourning Headband for Hue is, quite simply, a great piece of modernist war writing and it deserves to be read alongside All Quiet on the Western Front, Homage to Catalonia, Johnny Got His Gun, The Naked and the Dead, The Things They Carried, and Black Hawk Down." - Peter Zinoman, University of California Berkeley "In this searing and unsparing memoir, Nha Ca bears witness to the mindless violence against civilians in war. Her civilian focus is important: in all of the writing on the Vietnam War, too little has been written on the civilian experience of conflict, a conflict that profoundly shaped the lives of millions of Vietnamese. It is important that we read about this violence, and through first-hand accounts: the further we move away from the Vietnam War, and the more we clinically dissect the war in terms of high politics and military strategy, the less we seem to remember that the war, on the ground, could be vicious, brutal, and devastating. "A Mourning Headband for Hue" is an anguished testimonial to that reality." - Shawn F. McHale, George Washington University and author of Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam Prizes Commended for IndieFab awards (War & Military Nonfic) 2014 Long Description Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her fathers funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month of fighting, their beautiful city lies in ruins and thousands of people are dead. Mourning Headband for Hue tells the story of what happened during the fierce North Vietnamese offensive and is an unvarnished and riveting account of war as experienced by ordinary people caught up in the violence. Review Quote "To this day, her harrowing account--of war casualties, searches and arrests, ideological purges--generates intense debates about accountability during war time." --Shelf Awareness Promotional "Headline" Bronze Winner, 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, War & Military2015 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection Competing Titles The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Duong Van Mai Elliott (Oxford University Press, 2000). ISBN 9780195137873. Feature Listen to an IU Press podcast with Olga Dror. Details ISBN0253014174 Short Title MOURNING HEADBAND FOR HUE Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 0253014174 ISBN-13 9780253014177 Media Book Format Hardcover Translator Olga Dror Year 2014 Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States DEWEY 959.7043092 Illustrations black & white illustrations Publication Date 2014-09-04 Author Olga Dror Pages 378 Translated from Vietnamese Edited by Nha Ca UK Release Date 2014-09-04 AU Release Date 2014-09-04 NZ Release Date 2014-09-04 US Release Date 2014-09-04 Alternative 9780253014320 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:86736396;

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