Giap: Volcano Under Snow
Place_Pub: New York: Soho Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 336, maps, select bibliography, index, some underlining and ink notations to text. This is an important and impressive biography of Vietnam's celebrated General Giap, victor at Dien Bien Phu and strategist most responsible for the Tet Offensive. Giap employed strategies meant not merely to defeat his enemies but also to achieve their psychological surrender. Victorious in battles against, successively, the Japanese, the French, and the Americans, Giap became North Vietnam's Minister for Defense and Commander in Chief. Heworked with Ho Chi Minh to create the armies and the support for these under-equipped forces that would eventually triumph over the might of the West. Condition: good, very good.
Keywords: Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam War, Dien Bien Phu, Tet Offensive, Ho Chi Minh, Bao Dai, Cochin China, Kontum, Viet Cong
ISBN: 1569470537
[Book #53022]
Price: $37.50