Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years - Hardcover

Quinn-Judge, Sophie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520235339 ISBN 13: 9780520235335

Publisher: University of California Press, 2003

Synopsis

Quinn-Judge explores Ho's pre-power political career, from his emergence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to his organization of the Viet Minh united front at the start of World War II.

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Review:

'a thoroughly researched and elegantly written account of what is arguably the most important topic in modern Vietnamese political history A... her sources allow her to sketch a vivid, nuanced portrait of Ho Chi Minh and to unravel the complex interplay of domestic and international forces and shaped the historical emergence and development of Vietnamese Communism.' -Dr Peter Zinoman, University of California

About the Author:

Sophie Quinn-Judge worked in Vietnam as a volunteer from 1973 to 1975, and lived and worked in Southeast Asia from 1977 to 1986. She was a frequent contributor to the Far Eastern Economic Review, first from Bangkok and then from Moscow.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520235339
• ISBN 13: 9780520235335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368