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Prisoner of the Word : A Memoir of the Vietnamese Reeducation Camps by Le Huu Tri (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBlack Heron Press

ISBN-100930773608

ISBN-139780930773601

eBay Product ID (ePID)1648438

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NamePrisoner of the Word : a Memoir of the Vietnamese Reeducation Camps

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance)

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

AuthorLe Huu Tri

Subject AreaPolitical Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height5.5 in

Item Weight18.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width0.4 in

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Reviews"His writing is exact . . . . His recall of facts is remarkable." -- Michael Harris , Los Angeles Times, "An appalling . . . account of five years in Vietnamese reeducation camps from former South Vietnamese army office Tri." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Prisoner of the Word not only describes a part of Vietnam's modern history; it is a cautionary tale of the dangers of "spin control" in any and every government of the world. Highly recommended reading." -- Bookwatch

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal959.70437092

SynopsisPrisoner of the World is a recounting of Le Hu'u Tri's years in Vietnamese reeducation camps. A young officer in the South Vietnamese army in 1975, he turned himself in to the new authorities following the fall of Saigon. He believed he would be freed within a few weeks. Instead, he spent almost six years in forced-labor camps- euphemistically called reeducation camps - where prisoners were routinely starved and deprived of medical care, where some were shot, and they were worked beyond exhaustion. The title alludes to the author's observations on the techniques of manipulation and control the authorities used against their prisoners. Le's memoir is an important contribution to the literature on the methods and techniques of totalitarianism, particularly Communisim, and it is the only book that deals so extensivley with the Vietnamese camps. Readers of Jacques Ellul's Propaganda will recognize Prisoner of the World as illustrating Ellul's concept of internal propaganda.

LC Classification NumberDS559.914