Giap, Victor in Vietnam. From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 20, 1993 | COPYRIGHT 1993 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WAS he "the most successful guerrilla leader of all time"? Biographers often exaggerate but this one's verdict on General Vo Nguyen Giap may be not far from the truth. Before his retirement Peter Macdonald was a brigadier specialising in bomb disposal and he bases much of his book on interviews with General Giap, who can take much of the credit for defeating the French at Dien Bien Phu and the Americans in the South--and the debit for sacrificing so many lives.

Mr Macdonald ...

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