Prisoner of the Word: A Memoir of the Vietnamese Reeducation Camps - Hardcover

Le Huu Tri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930773608 ISBN 13: 9780930773601

Publisher: Black Heron Press, 2000

Synopsis

A memoir that describes the methods and techniques of totalitarianism, particularly Communism. It deals with the Vietnamese camps.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is a recounting of Le Hu'u Tri's years in Vietnamese re-education 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-labour camps - euphemistically called 're-education 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. This memoir is an important contribution to the literature on the methods and techniques of totalitarianism, particularly Communism, and it is the only book that deals so extensively with the Vietnamese camps. Readers of Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda" will recognise "Prisoner of the Word" as illustrating Ellul's concept of internal propaganda.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Heron Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0930773608
• ISBN 13: 9780930773601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350