Last Night I Dreamed of Peace. Dang Thuy Tram. 2007.

On June 221970, Dang Thuy Tram was shot dead by an American patrol in South Vietnam. She was a twenty-seven-year-old doctor who was trying to defend her patients.

Discovered among her possessions were a radio, a rice ledger, a medical notebook, bottles of novocaine and bandages, some poems - and this extraordinary diary.

US intelligence officer Fred Whitehurst came across the diary and, instead of destroying it, took it home. Realizing its special nature, he set out on an odyssey that took 35 years to find Thuy Tram's family in Vietnam and return the small brown volume to them.

Now a bestselling book in Dang Thuy Tram's home country, this important document reveals the hidden story of the Vietnam War.

It is also the touching portrait of a heroic young woman who cared deeply for her patients, family and friends, and who was loved in turn by those around her.

Dang Thuy Tram's diary explains what it is like to live in the shadow of the enemy; to hide underground within earshot of a traitor's footfalls; to be full of idealism and yet longing for love, and to look towards the future when the world is collapsing.

Her voice is as relevant and vibrant today as when she first committed her private thoughts to paper.