Vietnam's leaders pay tribute to Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
With no formal military training, the General built a group of guerrillas into a highly disciplined force that ended a colonial power and united a nation.
With no formal military training, the General built a group of guerrillas into a highly disciplined force that ended a colonial power and united a nation.
It will be difficult for a writer to depict such historical character as General Vo Nguyen Giap, because of the "epic gap", as the theoreticians have pointed out. But in the novel "The Road to Thang Long", author Nguyen The Quang cleverly crossed this immutable boundary.