Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation (1985)

You can also find this book on Amazon. Just click here. Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 0896801195 Condition: Very Good The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu-Binh was on e of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between this early experience and later activities of the author becomes clear as we learn that Tran Tu Binh survived imprisonment on con Son island to help engineer the general uprising in Hanoi in 1945. - from the back cover