01654nam a22002657a 4500 20220405113057.0 220405b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521850629 Aloy eng 23 959.70 BROH Pierre Brocheux 27581 Ho chi minh: A biography New York Cambridge University Press 2007 xxi,165 p. HB 23x16 cm. 995.00 ₹ 995.00 Ho Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Chi Minh is a brilliant feat of historical engineering. In a concise and highly readable account, he negotiates the many twists and turns of Ho Chi Minh's life and his multiple identities, from impoverished beginnings as a communist revolutionary to his founding of the Indochina Communist Party and the League for the Independence of Vietnam and ultimately to his leadership of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and his death in 1969. Biographical events are adroitly placed within the broader historical canvas of colonization, decolonization, communism war, and nation building. Brocheux's vivid and convincing portrait of Ho Chi Minh goes further than any previous biography in explaining both the myth and the man, as well as the times in which he was situated. Biography 27441 Presidents 27442 Heads of State 27443 Vietnam 27444 BROCHEUX (Pierre) 27445 DUIKER (Claire) Tr 27446 ddc GF 222166 222166 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 959.70 BROH GF03157 2022-04-05 00:00:00 2022-04-05 GF