262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45. Ho was the father of his nation, a major protagonist in the Cold War and anti-colonial struggle, and the promoter of a distinctive Vietnamese... Read more

Introduction; Chapter 1: Youth and the Emergent Nationalist; Chapter 2: The Comintern Agent; Chapter 3: Survival; Chapter 4: The Return of the Native; Chapter 5: The Prisoner; Chapter 6: The August Revolution; Chapter 7: The Struggle with France; Chapter 8: From Hanoi to Dien Bien Phu; Chapter 9: A Nation Divided; Chapter 10: The Two Republics; Chapter 11: Eclipse; Chapter 12: The Tet Offensive; Chapter 13: Legacy

Biography

Peter Neville is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has a special research interest in Vietnamese History and British Appeasement policy in the 1930s. His previous publications include Mussolini (2014), Britain in Vietnam: Prelude to Disaster, 1945–6 (2007), and Hitler and Appeasement (2006).

 

 

'Peter Neville has written a cogent and compelling account of how the enigmatic Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh emerged from obscurity to shape the history of Vietnam and beyond. This book will be of great interest to students and general readers alike.'

Jonathan Colman, University of Central Lancashire, UK