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General Vo Nguyen Giap as
Military Man and Poet
Cecil B. Currey
Outstanding generals in the western world have been known more for their victories and personalities than for their erudition or interest in aesthetics.
General giap autobiography
This is not a criticism but simply a matter of recognizing their orientation. Despite the fame of fighting war poets such as Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Thomas Hardy (1840-1920), Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) and others--none of whom ever sought or desired flag rank--battlefield realities seldom heighten poetic sensitivities.
We know the reputations of famous generals and recall snapshot images of them.
We can recall pictures of Erwin Rommel's begoggled and dust-caked face as he stared from the open hatch of a desert tank. We can visualize Douglas MacArthur striding unarmed along trench parapets facing out into No Man's Land during the Great War, wearing about his neck a long hand-knit muffler and brandishing a swagger stick in