Ho Chi Minh: A Biography.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux. Translated by Claire Duiker. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii, 265 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).

Will the real Ho Chi Minh please stand up? Ho Chi Minh is in many respects an enigma. Much of what we know about the father of North Vietnam comes from his two autobiographies or from information that has been carefully filtered by the Vietnamese state apparatus to produce an image of a dedicated and thoughtful "Uncle Ho." Both sources are suspect. There are several biographies of Ho Chi Minh in various ...

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