Lieutenant General Truong Thien To, Deputy Chief of the General Department of Political Affairs of the Vietnam People’s Army, attended the event.
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Delegates attending the book launch |
Half a century has passed, but the great victory of the resistance war against the United States for national salvation remains a shining milestone in Vietnam’s long history of national defense and development. On the occasion of this significant 50-year anniversary, the People’s Army Publishing House compiled and published a 15-volume book series titled "Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the South Liberation and National Reunification Day (1975-2025)." The series includes selected reprinted works from a vast archive, alongside newly written, researched, and compiled manuscripts about the resistance war, incorporating new materials and perspectives over time.
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Lieutenant General Truong Thien To delivering his speech |
The book collection spans a wide variety of genres such as monographs, memoirs, historical reports, novels, epic poems, literary criticism, and notably, a photo book titled "Ho Chi Minh City - 50 glorious years (1975-2025)."
Also on this occasion, the People’s Army Publishing House partnered with the Vietnam Book Cultural Knowledge Joint Stock Company (Vietnambook) to co-publish the series to expand distribution and serve military personnel and readers nationwide.
In his speech, Lieutenant General Truong Thien To praised the People’s Army Publishing House for its proactive planning, successful collaboration with authors both within and beyond the military, and completion of a highly valuable publication. He noted that the careful selection of authors and literary forms provide readers with a rich intellectual offering, deepening public understanding of national history, the resistance war, and the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising. The book series serves to foster patriotism and national pride among today's and future generations, who will continue the heroic traditions of the past and be determined to build and defend a socialist Vietnam in the new era.
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Senior Colonel and writer Chu Lai engaging with readers. |
He emphasized that the launch of this book series was especially meaningful as it coincided with the Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2025 and was held at the Political Academy, one of the country’s leading centers for military social sciences and humanities education and research.
On this occasion, guest speakers including Professor, Doctor Dinh Xuan Dung (former Vice Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Council for Literary and Art Theory and Criticism), Senior Colonel and writer Chu Lai, and poet Tran Dang Khoa (Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Writers' Association) talked about reading culture and introduced selected titles from the collection.
Translated by Chung Anh