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          Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid homage to General Vo Nguyen Giap and met with families of soldiers fighting in the Dien Bien Phu.

        1. Like so many other of Vietnam's great leaders Vo Nguyen Giap came from central Vietnam and in the s went to secondary school – a French.
        2. The Vietnam News Agency Publishing House has compiled and published a photo book entitled “General Vo Nguyen Giap”, on the occasion of his 10th death.
        3. A group of local veterans are seen paying homage to Vietnam's legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap at his house in Hanoi on October 4, , one.
        4. Nearly 20 years ago, Catherine Karnow followed General Giap to Dien Bien to take photograph of veterans who jubilantly welcomed him.

          5. The Vietnam News Agency Publishing House has compiled and published a photo book entitled “General Vo Nguyen Giap”, on the occasion of his 10th death..

          General Vo Nguyen Giap as
          Military Man and Poet

          Cecil B.

          Currey

          Outstanding generals in the western world have been known more for their victories and personalities than for their erudition or interest in aesthetics. This is not a criticism but simply a matter of recognizing their orientation.

          Despite the fame of fighting war poets such as Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Thomas Hardy (1840-1920), Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) and others--none of whom ever sought or desired flag rank--battlefield realities seldom heighten poetic sensitivities.

          We know the reputations of famous generals and recall snapshot images of them.

          We can recall pictures of Erwin Rommel's begoggled and dust-caked face as he stared from the open hatch of a desert tank. We can visualize Douglas MacArthur striding unarmed along trench parapets facing out into No Man's Land during the Great War, wearing about his neck a long hand-knit muffler and brandishing a swagger stick in