The book, entitled ‘Ho Chi Minh the patriot, 60 years of revolutionary struggle’, was unveiled at the 2011 Havana international book fair on February 16.

Addressing the ceremony, Isabel Allende summed up the content of the book on President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese people’s heroic struggle against French colonialism and American imperialism under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The book was completed in 2010 to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Cuba-Vietnam diplomatic relations and the 80^th birthday of the Vietnamese Communist Party, said Julio Garcia Oliveras, Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam from 1966-1969.

The former diplomat affirmed the book shows the love for President Ho Chi Minh, a highly patriotic revolutionary.

The 250-page book includes many black-and-white photos capturing important moments of Ho Chi Minh at the 1920 Tours Congress of the French Social Party, at Ba Dinh square in 1945, and during the Vietnam visit by the Cuban senior delegation headed by Raul Castro in 1966.

****   A Spanish version of The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram has been published by Cuban Social Sciences Publishing House.

The book features Dang Thuy Tram as a simple, bright, romantic and brave doctor ready to sacrifice her life for the motherland.

Vietnamese ambassador to Cuba Vu Chi Cong expressed sincere thanks for the latest publication of the book in Spanish.

The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram was already published in English, French and Laotian.