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Vo Nguyen Giap

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Vo Nguyen Giap

(born 1912, An Xa, Viet.) Vietnamese military leader. He began to work for Vietnamese autonomy as a youth and attended the same high school as Ho Chi Minh. As a professor of history in Hanoi, he converted many colleagues and students to his political views. He fled to China in 1939 when the French banned the Indochinese Communist Party, but returned in 1941. In 1945 he led the Viet Minh forces that defeated the Japanese, who occupied Vietnam during World War II. He brought French colonial rule to an end by winning the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954) in the First Indochina War, and he led the North Vietnamese forces that defeated the U.S. and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War (1955–75). He served in various roles in the postwar government of Vietnam until the early 1990s.


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In Vietnam, Morris interviewed senior officers of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), including General Vo Nguyen Giap and the former commander of the trail, General Dong Si Nguyen.
The charm of this book is that Appy did not limit his interviewing to obligatory icons like Generals Vo Nguyen Giap and William Westmoreland, or the victims of My Lai and Kent State, or famed POWs like John McCain.
Such statements are, undoubtedly, sweet music to the ears of General Vo Nguyen Giap, who commanded the Communist PAVN in Vietnam and, now in his 90s, still occupies the top post in the Communist People's Republic of Vietnam.
 
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