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Rain On The Red Flag - A Memoir by Frank Thanh Nguyen

- October 25, 2022

Buy or Gift Online. Click here to buy from Amazon Click here to buy from Google Play Click here to buy from Apple's iTunes Click here to buy from Barnes & Noble Click here to buy from ReaderHouse Semi Finalist, 2023 Memoir Category Nguyen's book is a thoroughly engaging story that draws readers in with tragedy, perseverance, and, ultimately, a type of reunification. The framing--starting the story with a heartbreaking plot point--sets the stage for an emotional and harrowing story that keeps readers riveted throughout. Public Reviews " Rain on the Red Flag is an immensely moving and absorbing memoir of one man’s journey to freedom and the high price both he and his family paid to get there. Highly engaging and thoroughly readable, it is superbly well-written and expertly paced. You can almost smell the smoke. Feel the wind and the rain. Hear the blare of Communist propaganda. Taste the salt air on the open sea. Don’t miss this one. It is incisive and poig

RAIN ON THE RED FLAG - BOOK REVIEW BY REEDSY DISCOVERY

- January 19, 2023

Loved it! 😍 A compelling and absorbing memoir about one man's desperate journey to freedom after the fall of Saigon. No library should be without it. SYNOPSIS Tchaikovsky. A White Butterfly. The Memory of Love. For seventeen-year-old city boy Frank Thanh Nguyen, the official end of the war in Vietnam marked the end of his freedom and the beginning of a harrowing adventure. Rain on the Red Flag details Thanh's remarkable journey, which begins on the day the Communists planted their flag in homes along his street in Saigon. Thanh's only chance of survival was to escape. During several escape attempts Thanh discovered parts of his country and its people that weren't known to him before. Later, Thanh was captured by the undercover police. For four years, he was held in jails and labor camps, chained, and starved. Only his love for freedom, music, the memory of his girl, his family, and friendship with the other prisoners keeps him sane. When Thanh was finally set free an

APRIL 30th, 1975 - THE FALL OF SAIGON (EXCERPT FROM RAIN ON THE RED FLAG MEMOIR)

- April 30, 2023

(see picture notes below) We camped out in that second-floor stairwell all night, making little nests for ourselves. The youngest children curled into their mothers, occasionally drinking water and eating dry instant noodles. I closed my eyes, and their voices weaved in and out of my dreams. I woke up, choking on stuffy air. The guard was no longer there. A small window cast eerie smoked silver light on some of the children’s faces. Uncle Hieu stood near the cracked ventilation shaft, watching the airport. The pop-pop-popping sound of the shelling continued low staccato hum. “Come see,” my uncle whispered, waving toward me. I stood up, dizzy and dehydrated. My chest ached from the way I’d been curled all night. When I reached the shaft, I stood up on the balls of my feet on the stairs and squinted to look through the arm-sized crack in the shaft. I gasped. The sky was a greenish gray color that didn’t seem like day or night. Long columns of smoke billowed everywhere. “The American Mari

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Frank Thanh Nguyen: Frank Thanh Nguyen was born in Dalat, South Vietnam, from a large family where his father and uncles all served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He spent most of his childhood and high school years in Saigon while the Vietnam War raged through the country. After the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists in 1975, he spent the next two years trying to escape the new brutal regime. He got arrested and sent to several labor camps. In 1981, he was released and successfully escaped the country and reunited with his family in the US. He went to college and earned his master’s degree in computer science. He has since worked for many high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley, specializing in software development and leadership for more than thirty-five years. He is married and has two sons. Frank Nguyen spent much of his spare time reading, writing, and playing for the Mystery Box band, a local amateur rock band.

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