
By Ngo Van,Ken Knabb,Hélène Fleury
In 1936, Ngo Van was once captured, imprisoned, and tortured within the dreaded Maison Centrale legal in Saigon for his half within the fight to unfastened Vietnam from French colonial rule. 5 years later, Vietnamese independence used to be gained, and Van discovered himself imprisoned and abused as soon as morethis time via the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. 5 years after that, Van used to be in Paris, operating with the surrealists.
In the Crossfire files Ngo Van's remarkable existence in Vietnam in the course of the global wars, and his next years spent in the course of the Parisian intelligentsia. this can be the 1st English translation!
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