An edition of HO CHI MINH (2000)

Ho Chi Minh

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An edition of HO CHI MINH (2000)

Ho Chi Minh

1st pbk. ed.
  • 5.00 ·
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"This book chronicles Ho's childhood as the son of a willfully poor and brilliant scholar. It follows Ho through his early years as an itinerant expatriate - forced to leave French Indochina to escape arrest, he shipped out as a cook on a passenger steamer and traveled the globe.

It tells of his years in the heady environment of London and Paris during and after World War I, where he supported himself with a variety of jobs including sous-chef to the great Escoffier, all the while working tirelessly to push the anticolonialist cause among his comrades in international Communist circles.".

"Duiker gives an account of Ho's rise to leadership of the Vietnamese Communist movement, his years of travel (often in disguise) fomenting revolution, his imprisonments and narrow escapes from the French Surete, and his phenomenal ability as the first president of his country to inspire and reconcile his often bitterly divided colleagues.

Using files from Soviet and French archives, Duiker has also re-created Ho's ceaseless efforts to enlist Moscow, Beijing, and Washington in his cause, and his artful attempts to play the three off one another.".

"By accessing original documents in five languages, Duiker has been able to shed new light on the question of Ho's primary motivation: Was he simply a patriot bent on achieving Vietnamese independence, or a chameleon who constructed a deceptive nationalist image solely to win support, at home and abroad, for global proletarian revolution?"--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Theia
Language
English
Pages
695

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HO CHI MINH: A LIFE
November 28, 2001, Hyperion
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HO CHI MINH: A LIFE
September 27, 2000, Hyperion
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Ho Chi Minh
2000, Theia
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Hyperion, 2002.

Map of Southeast Asia and Pacific Ocean on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-670) and index.

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Biography.
Other Titles
Ho Chi Minh :

Classifications

Library of Congress
DS560.72.H6

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 695 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
695

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OL23056181M
Internet Archive
hochiminh0000duik
ISBN 10
078688701X
OCLC/WorldCat
48462978
Library Thing
265908
Goodreads
564927

First Sentence

"He entered the city quietly, with no fanfare."

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