Drawing Under Fire
War Diary of a Young Vietnamese Artist
Contributing author: Jessica Harrison-Hall
This unique diary is the first Vietnamese contemporaneous eyewitness account of the historic battle of Dian Bien Phu to be published in English and in French. The Vietnamese war artist Pham Thanh Tam (1932-) studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Hanoi and was a reporter, artist and illustrator during the Franco-Vietnam War (1946-1954) and the American-Vietman War (1964-1975). Fought in northwest Vietnam by the Viet Minh forces of General Vo Nguyen, Dien Bien Phu has been described as the Stalingrad of the East. Tam?s account of the young farmer soliders fighting for independence from the French is one of the most poignant war diaries ever written. His lyrical and pensive sketched drawn during the battle, some of the few to have survived from the period, are a testimony to the cruelty and destruction of war on one?s own soil. His drawings form part of the collection of the British Museum. Sherry Buchnan discovered Pham Thanh Tam?s diary and drawings while she was in Vietnam researching her first book on Tin

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