Modern History - Personalities

Article in the Washington Post by Thomas A Bass exploring the contradictions in reporting on his life.

Biography on ThoughtCo. by Kennedy Hickman on Vo Nguyen Giap

Interview transcript from the PBS documentary series on the 'People's Century Geurilla Wars'.

This journal article is written by Cecil B Currey a History professor at the University of South Florida at the time of wriring this journal article. This piece of writing has an unusual style - it is mainly an interview transcript with General Vo Nguyen Giap, asking him questions about himself that the author feels that the west often gets wrong.

The article discusses the implications of the Tet Offensive of 1968, when the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF), the armed wing of the Vietnamese political organization National Liberation Front, launched surprise attacks on U.S. military targets throughout South Vietnam. It mentions that the attacks conceived by the Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, increased public pressure on U.S. administration lead by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, to cease military conflict with Vietnam.

he article presents a narrative on the acquaintance of Henry Prunier, former member of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with Vietnamese nationalist leaders Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. It relates that Prunier met Ho and Giap as a member of the OSS Deer Team that was deployed in Vietnam in June 1945 to train a nationalist force in the country headed by Ho. It conveys that Giap and Ho are instrumental in defeating the U.S. in the Vietnam War in 1975.

A reprint of an interview of Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, which appeared in the 1970 book "Military Art of People's War: Selected Writings by General Vo Nguyen Giap," is presented. He discusses Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh's assertion that the U.S. lost the Vietnam War. When asked about the concept of a people's war, he discusses the ways in which the Vietnam War mobilized various classes of people. U.S. bombing of North Vietnam is also discussed.

The article focuses on Vo Nguyen Giap, a General in the Vietnam People's Army. It mentions that in 1954 Viet Minh troops lead by Giap forced a French garrison to surrender after a 55-day siege. It further discusses the role of Giap in the 1968 Tet Offensive, launched by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the U.S. and their allies. The book "Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam" by James A. Warren, is also mentioned.