Võ Nguyên Giáp
said
In August 1945, the capitulation of the Japanese forces before the and the Allied forces, put an end to the world war.
— pp. 4-5
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)
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Lived 1911–2013, aged 102
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The self-taught general who beat France at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, then commanded North Vietnamese forces through two decades of war against the United States — a history teacher with no military training who built guerrilla bands into a mechanized army.
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Born in 1911 to a peasant family in Quảng Bình, Giáp joined anti-colonial movements at fourteen and studied law in the 1930s before teaching history. He rose as military leader of the Việt Minh during World War II, fighting Japanese occupation, then turned his forces against the French in the First Indochina War. His decisive victory at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 ended French rule. As commander and defense minister, he led North Vietnamese forces through the Vietnam War, overseeing the 1968 Tet Offensive and 1972 Easter Offensive before stepping down as commander but staying on through the 1975 fal…
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Listen, the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, 'You expelled the French and the Americans.
— Attributed by Haviv Rettig Gur of The Times of Israel, saying he heard it from deputy national security adviser Eran Lerman in 2021. Lerman
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