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Article: BOOK REVIEW / Old ideals die young
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 18, 1995
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BUI TIN is a Vietnamese patriot, aged 68. Like all patriots of
his generation in Vietnam, he joined the Viet Minh as a teenager,
in 1945, and followed Ho Chi Minh into the mountains of North
Vietnam to fight for his country's independence.
He is careful not to describe himself as a revolutionary,
because that is one class of person he is wary of nowadays. But in
fact Bui Tin witnessed or took part in all the great revolutionary
events in modern Vietnam's history, from the battle of Dien Bien
Phu which led to the end of French rule nine years later in 1954,
the building of the Ho Chi Minh trail at the beginning of the 1960s
to the final offensive which saw the collapse of the
American-backed ...