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Curry, Cecil B. Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1997. 401pp. $25.95
To American military officers and the Western community in general, General Vo Nguyen Giap remains an enigma. In the latest biography of the architect of America's defeat, Cecil Currey portrays his subject as one of the most talented generals in the twentieth century and the greatest living expert on people's war. Currey is a retired professor of military history at the University of South Florida and a retired colonel, U.S. Army Reserve. His previous books include Self-Destruction: The Disintegration and Decay of the United States Army during the Vietnam Era (1981) and Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American (1988).
Drawing upon a plethora of Vietnamese sources, including lengthy interviews with Giap himself, Currey paints a favorable portrait of the Vietnamese general in an effort to "correct the record...