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Never had there been more articles written on Võ Nguyên Giáp than during the closing months of 2001, when General Giáp was nearing his 90th birthday anniversary. He is affectionately called the "Big Brother" of the Vietnamese People's Army, and is a Vietnamese commander-in-chief who wins the hearts of not only his men and military colleagues but also the general public as a whole. Authors of those articles come from diverse backgrounds, ranging from scholars to military figures, from his childhood classmates to his comrades in the 30-year struggle, from his family relatives to people of much younger generations.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Scarce paperback, 843 pages, NOT ex-library. Short, mostly gentle creases to corners of first & last pages. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Faint dusty marks on page edges externally. Covers show a bit of rubbing to edges, gentle handling wear. -- A substantial single volume biography of General Vo Nguyen Giáp (1911-2013), Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnam People's Army, written by Tran Trong Trung - himself a colonel and military historian who served under Giáp and had direct access to both the general and the senior figures around him. The account traces Giáp's life from his early politicisation in Quang Binh Province and his recruitment by Ho Chi Minh in the late 1930s, through the founding of the Vietnamese armed forces in 1944, to the campaigns that ended French colonial rule and ultimately defeated the United States and South Vietnam. The core of the book is military narrative - the French Indochina War, the decisive victory at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the long campaign against the Americans and the fall of Saigon in 1975 - but it also addresses the political and personal dimensions of Giáp's career: his relationship with Ho Chi Minh, his role in the Politburo, his gradual marginalisation after reunification, and the qualities that allowed a self-taught strategist with no formal military training to outmanoeuvre two of the world's major military powers in succession. The volume draws on Vietnamese archival material and published memoirs together with French and American sources, allowing readers to see how Giáp's decisions were perceived on both sides of the conflicts. For readers of military history, Vietnam studies and leadership studies, this long, chronologically organised account offers a detailed Vietnamese perspective that complements shorter Western biographies. Published in Hanoi a year after Giáp's death at the age of 101, the book serves as a substantial Vietnamese tribute to a figure widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's foremost military commanders. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006574
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