Giap, Vo Nguyen
Giap, Vo Nguyen (1910–), North Vietnamese general and government minister.Born into a family of small landowners in Quang Binh, Central Vietnam, Giap had an early education in Chinese, followed by one in French. Involved in student political disturbances of 1926, he was expelled from school. Thereafter, he joined the New Vietnam Revolutionary party advocating independence from French rule. In the 1930s, he was a political prisoner for two years and became a member of the Indochinese Communist Party. He also became a history teacher and a journalist who campaigned for press freedom and the diffusion of the national language. In 1939, he wrote a book on the military situation in China and co‐authored another about Vietnamese peasants. Two years later, he joined Ho Chi Minh in China and learned more about guerrilla warfare.
Back in Vietnam by 1944, Giap helped to organize the...
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