Book on Newspaper of Liberation Army of South Vietnam debuted

The book’s author Ho Son Dai talks about his efforts to debut the book.

The book was debuted on the occasion on the 60th anniversary of the first issue of the Liberation Army Newspaper (November 1, 1963 - 2023).

The book’s author, Associate Professor, Doctor, Senior Colonel Ho Son Dai, former head of the Military Science Division under Military Region 7, spent two years collecting documents and meeting with witnesses.

The book introduces a brief history of the newspaper in different stages and its 108 issues. It also provides readers with valuable documents about the history of Vietnam's revolutionary press, the perspective on the resistance war against U.S. imperialists on the Southern theater.

The newspaper’s former field reporters recall their task performance.

This over 400-page book consists of four chapters with close association with four historic stages of the Southern theater, namely 1963-1965, 1966-1968, 1969-1972, and 1973-1975. Attentively, its appendix entitled “Memories of insiders” features memories of the Liberation Army Newspaper’s reporters and a list of the newspaper’s cadres and reporters since its inception.

In nearly 12 years of operation, the newspaper rolled out 338 issues. During these years, the newspaper’s generations of cadres, reporters, and editors overcame difficulties, and fierceness on the theater to cover all activities of troops and people in the South from 1963 to 1975. Many articles highlighted combat views and duties in specific periods, role models, experience in force building, and military art of the armed forces. Some also denounced the nature, plots and tricks of the U.S. imperialists and the Saigon government and army, encouraged local people and armed forces to overcome all hardships and challenges to win the final victory.

The cover of the book

Col. Dai shared that in fierce war conditions, writing an article and sending it to the editorial office was difficult. It was more difficult to print and distribute a newspaper to each Liberation Army platoons in the South. Therefore, the making of 338 issues of the Liberation Army Newspaper was really a miracle and the newspaper was truly a reliable and sharp weapon in the political, ideological, and cultural fields.

Translated by Chung Anh