Ho Chi Minh in Love
Tariq Ali, 22 November 2012
The Zenith
by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Stephen Young and Hoa PhamYoung.
Viking US, 509 pp., £25, August 2012,978 0 670 02375 2 Show More
by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Stephen Young and Hoa PhamYoung.
Viking US, 509 pp., £25, August 2012,
“... not Germans). He looks awkward in the photograph taken at Versailles, a sleek, well-dressed young man who found it difficult to manage the obligatory smile. The rebuff radicalised him further. At the Socialist Party Congress in Tours in 1920, he backed the pro-Bolshevik faction that created the French Communist Party, thus becoming a founder ... ”