SENIOR GENERAL VO NGUYEN GIAP REMEMBERS

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

I made my first trip to Viet Nam in 1988 and was fortunate enough to secure an interview with Senior General Vo Nguyen Giap. I had been teaching Viet Nam for some ten years before I received permission to go to that land. General Giap kindly let me interview him and later we corresponded. I told him on my second visit to Viet Nam a few months later that I planned to write his biography and he replied that he remembered me from our earlier meeting and expressed his pleasure that I planned to write about him for, he said, he wanted any book written in the West on his life to be ...

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