This is General Giap's latest memoir on the Supreme Command's sharp and lucid decisions at the end of the national resistance war. In his book, he writes about great events such as the battle of Dien Bien Phu in the air during Christmas 1972; and the Tay Nguyen Campaign, which was a strategic turning-point that led to the Ho Chi Minh Campaign to liberate Sai Gon in April 1975. The last part of …
Contents: 1. An emerging opportunity 2. The main thrust point 3. The liberation of the borderland 4. The workers party of Vietnam 5. To the midland region 6. To the plain 7. Summer 1951 8. The big question, etc.
This book contains: 1. President Ho Chi Minh's letter to the fighters on the Dien Bien Phu battlefront 2. President Ho Chi Minh's congratulary etter 3. The most difficult decision 4. Dien Bien Phu 5. Dien Bien Phu in retrospect after forty years 6. The lessons of the Dien Bien Phu campaign
From August 1945 to December 1946, from the victory of the General Insurrection to the start of the resistance to French colonial aggression, Viet Nam went through a crucial period, one that was extremely complex and at times critical.
Even to this day, bourgeois strategists have not yet overcome their surprise at the outcome of the war in Indochina. How could the Vietnamese nation have defeated an imperialist power such as France which was backed by the United States? They try to explain this extraordinary fact by the correctness of strategy and tactics, by the forms of combat and the heroism of the Vietnam People’s Army. …