The Vietnamese Gulag
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The Vietnamese Gulag is a book comparing post-war Vietnam to an archipelago of prison camps, along the lines of the description of the Soviet Union in The Gulag Archipelago.
"A revolution betrayed - the shocking first-person chronicle of a former supporter of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam who survived his country's descent into totalitarianism" (d/w sub-title).
The book was originally written in French (Le Goulag vietnamien) by Doan Van Toai. After his escape from Vietnam, he asked Ed Poor to help him translate it into English. Poor had no wherewithal to do this, and Toai received help from David Chanoff who became a co-writer of the English edition. It was published in 1986 by Simon and Schuster Publishing Group, New York (ISBN 9780671603502 ISBN 0671603507) , 351 pp.
