General Giap, the Vietminh commander, has been compared to his own model, that other artilleryman, Napoleon.

越南指挥官武元甲将军曾被拿来和他的楷模炮兵将军拿破仑相提并论。

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In 1954 some 10, 000 French troops surrendered at Dien Bien Phu to a Vietminh army under General Vo Nguyen Giap.

ECONOMIST: Nguyen Co Thach

Mr Thach, a lieutenant-colonel in the Vietminh army, was Giap's aide.

ECONOMIST: Nguyen Co Thach

He retells the terrible siege of Dien Bien Phu earlier that spring, when the North Vietnamese commander, Vo Ngu-yen Giap, made thousands of porters drag artillery into the hills surrounding a French base, from where they pounded the foreign army.

ECONOMIST: The first Vietnam war