France presents book on General Vo Nguyen Giap
The book compiled by Alain Ruscio from 1979 to 2008 is published by Les Indes Savantes.
In
the preface, the author expressed his pride of meeting with General
Giap when he was a correspondent and special envoy of l’Humanite
newspaper in Hanoi in 1979 to cover the 25th anniversary of Dien
Bien Phu Victory.
Russcio said he never forgot that first meeting
and later, whenever he returned to Vietnam Ruscio tried to see General
Giap again. However, in January 2010, General Giap could not receive him
because of his health condition at the age of 100.
With the
General’s permission, Ruscio collected his writings, speeches and
historic reports for five-part book to introduce General Giap’s life
since he was a teacher of history, then became a patriotic youth, a
guerrilla, a revolutionary theorist and a revolutionary practician to
fight French colonialists and American imperialists.
Russico said
he hoped that the book describes the portrait of a great talent
military strategist of the Vietnam revolution to readers in Europe
and around the world./.