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Others well-versed in the field may dispute this and I would be eager to hear those objections, but I would posit Hanoi's War by Lien Hang-Nguyen as the best and preeminent account of Le Duan's involvement in North Vietnam's leadership during the war available for English-language audiences. As she writes, Le Duan was the first secretary ...
Feb 8, 2018 · Panelists discuss the fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive, launched in late January 1968, and the lessons learned or forgotten from the Vietnam War for the United States today.
Apr 30, 2024 · Le Duan, 79 led Viet Nam for 17 years. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Le Duan, Viet Nam's most powerful leader since the death of Ho Chi Minh 17 years ago, died in Hanoi today, the official Voice of Viet Nam announced. He was 79. The Communist party secretary-general died after "a period of serious illness," said the broadcast, monitored in Bangkok.
- Tessa Zwar
- 2020
Jan 30, 2018 · The cities of Da Nang, Nha Trang, Pleiku, Ban Me Thuot, Hoi An, Qui Nhon and Kontum all came under attack by communist forces one day before the generalised offensive actually began. Though that should have alerted the US and its allies to the possibility of further concerted attacks against vulnerable targets, it did not.
When this offensive strategy encountered major American sweeping operations in the southern countryside in 1966 and early 1967, Le Duan’s command of the war came under heavy criticism in Hanoi.
Hanoi Central. Lien-Hang Nguyen's new book Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam is primarily a political and diplomatic history of the Vietnam War, centered on Hanoi and the North Vietnamese government. This is the story of the political rise of two of North Vietnam's most powerful leaders, Le Duan and Le Duc ...
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Jul 14, 2006 · Vietnam ambivalent on Le Duan's legacy. Le Duan, who died 20 years ago this month, was arguably the second most powerful Vietnamese leader in the 20th century, although less known to the West than Ho Chi Minh or Vo Nguyen Giap. As general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party for nearly three decades, he was one of the principal ...
