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Have you ever heard of General Võ Nguyên Giáp?
I hadn't, and it's hardly my fault. This man doesn't figure in any Western 20th Century histories.
Giap was the Vietnamese General who:
1. Defeated the French colonial forces in Vietnam.
2. Defeated the American occupying forces in Vietnam.
And then, after China invaded Northern Vietnam:
3. He turned around and defeated the invading Chinese forces.
Beat that. On his death The Daily Telegraph called him "Red Napoleon". This is grossly unfair, and highly innacurate. Napoleon was a power-crazed tyrant who attempted to conquer an entire continent. Giap was simply defending his homeland. And repeatedly, against seemingly insurmountable odds. Suck it up.
This book, I searched high and low. Couldn't find a copy. In the end, I found a site that let you read online. This was years ago, before I refined my ebook making skills.
I wrote some Python to click through and screenshot every page, then I ran it all through Tesseract, then Calibre to make the final ebook.
This was years ago. The contents is a mess, but the formatting is pretty spot on and it is devoid of any spelling mistakes.
A great read. Something you'll never get taught in school.
Here's the blurb....
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War.
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare.
In Giap, military historian James A. Warren dives deep into the conflict to bring to life a revolutionary general and reveal the groundbreaking strategies that defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is more than a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric. As America's wars in the Middle East rage on, this is an important and timely look at a man who was a master at defeating his enemies even as they thought they were winning.
I hadn't, and it's hardly my fault. This man doesn't figure in any Western 20th Century histories.
Giap was the Vietnamese General who:
1. Defeated the French colonial forces in Vietnam.
2. Defeated the American occupying forces in Vietnam.
And then, after China invaded Northern Vietnam:
3. He turned around and defeated the invading Chinese forces.
Beat that. On his death The Daily Telegraph called him "Red Napoleon". This is grossly unfair, and highly innacurate. Napoleon was a power-crazed tyrant who attempted to conquer an entire continent. Giap was simply defending his homeland. And repeatedly, against seemingly insurmountable odds. Suck it up.
This book, I searched high and low. Couldn't find a copy. In the end, I found a site that let you read online. This was years ago, before I refined my ebook making skills.
I wrote some Python to click through and screenshot every page, then I ran it all through Tesseract, then Calibre to make the final ebook.
This was years ago. The contents is a mess, but the formatting is pretty spot on and it is devoid of any spelling mistakes.
A great read. Something you'll never get taught in school.
Here's the blurb....
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War.
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare.
In Giap, military historian James A. Warren dives deep into the conflict to bring to life a revolutionary general and reveal the groundbreaking strategies that defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is more than a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric. As America's wars in the Middle East rage on, this is an important and timely look at a man who was a master at defeating his enemies even as they thought they were winning.