Giap was the more cold and calculating of the two, a man who stirred awe and admiration in his underlings but not the kind of devotion Ho generated. When Giap speaks in his memoirs of the fabulously persuasive force of his master, Tønnesson remarks, he does not see the importance of Ho’s sincerity. “Uncle Ho had an extraordinary flair for detecting the thoughts and feelings of the enemy,” Giap writes. “With great shrewdness, he worked out a concrete treatment for each type and each individual.… Even his enemies, men who were notoriously anticommunist, showed respect for him. They seemed to
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