In the Crossfire
"[The Vietnamese were] participants in one of the most broad-based and persevering revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. Ngo Van took part in that movement as a young man, and in his old age, half a century later, he became the preeminent chronicler of its remarkable victories and tragic defeats" Ken Knabb, author and translator
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary is Ngo Van's fascinating and gripping autobiography, telling the story of the people who struggled for decades against French colonial rule, in the run up to the Vietnam War. Although the Stalinists were ultimately victorious, there were many oppositional revolutionary currents. This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
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