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Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering.
Duiker is the author of Ho Chi Minh: A Life, published in 2000, which was the first comprehensive biography of Ho Chi Minh His area of expertise is East Asia; while in the Foreign Service he spent several years in Vietnam, where an injury left him with partial hearing in one ear.
Although Ho Chi Minh's life helped shape the 20th century, not until now has there been a major biography of this immensely important and elusive figure. This impressive work of history by a world-renowned authority on Vietnam now fills this gap, taking full advantage of information only recently declassified. Engrossing and impeccably researched, this is a revelatory portrait of one of the.
A leftist, hagiographic biography of Ho Chi Minh, written by a longtime journalist for Le Monde. First published in 1968, a year before Ho's death. This was probably as complete a biography as could be found of Ho until William Duiker's more scholarly and less biased Ho Chi Minh: A Life.
Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple.
Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple identities, from impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his founding of the Indochina Communist Party and the League.
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